“Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the thing we long to hear? “I love you” is always a quotation.”
Jeanette Winterson, Written on the body, 1992
Our lives are filled with perceptual and emotional contradictions. Our fabrication of reality is constructed through the complex process of mediated enculturation. By placing the spectator in front of a series of poetic contradictions I am hoping that the viewer will engage in a self-introspection on the complexities between perceptions and the communications of ones values and desires. The mural piece I Love You from A to Z is an attempt to create a pictorial discursive space in which technology is address as means to dissimulate or enhance the presence of multiple realities.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION:
The 2 top panels are a diptych of an Iraqi soldier kissing an Egyptian soldier. (48” x 34” each, aluminum mounted).
The 2 middle panels are of aluminum (48 1/8” x 18” each) with a cut-out of the Savastika symbol witch is often associated with fertility and regeneration (the origin of the Swastika that has become one of the most feared symbols of the 20th century), the panels have a lighting system controlled by an electronic board that makes the lights blink the phrases I Love You starting from the letter A to Z… in Morse code.
The bottom panel is of Plexiglas (9” x 96”) with the digitally written equivalent phrases of I Love you from the letter A to Z…