We looked for eyes creased with concern, but saw only veils
Sweetwater, Berlin, 2023
I, I have found it meet and right so to do. [1]
full from the silver screen: There the flawed became whole (Then the screen would light up, and I’d move right on in them pictures), 2023
Steel
129.5 x 261.6cm
Steel
129.5 x 261.6cm
full from the silver screen...(detail), 2023
full from the silver screen... (detail), 2023
Pretty eyes. Pretty blue eyes. Big blue pretty eyes.
Run, Jip, run. Jip runs, Alice runs. Alice has blue eyes.
Jerry has blue eyes. Jerry runs. Alice runs. They run
with their blue eyes. Four blue eyes. Four pretty
blue eyes. Blue-sky eyes. Blue-like Mrs. Forrest’s
blue blouse eyes. Morning-glory-blue-eyes.
Alice-and-Jerry-blue-, 2023
Anti-climb paint, paper and sapele mahogany
91 x 91 x 6cm
Run, Jip, run. Jip runs, Alice runs. Alice has blue eyes.
Jerry has blue eyes. Jerry runs. Alice runs. They run
with their blue eyes. Four blue eyes. Four pretty
blue eyes. Blue-sky eyes. Blue-like Mrs. Forrest’s
blue blouse eyes. Morning-glory-blue-eyes.
Alice-and-Jerry-blue-, 2023
Anti-climb paint, paper and sapele mahogany
91 x 91 x 6cm
Pretty eyes. Pretty blue eyes... (detail), 2023
Pretty eyes. Pretty blue eyes... (detail), 2023
Pretty eyes. Pretty blue eyes. Big blue pretty eyes.
Run, Jip, run. Jip runs, Alice runs. Alice has blue eyes.
Jerry has blue eyes. Jerry runs. Alice runs. They run
with their blue eyes. Four blue eyes. Four pretty
blue eyes. Blue-sky eyes. Blue-like Mrs. Forrest’s
blue blouse eyes. Morning-glory-blue-eyes.
Alice-and-Jerry-blue-storybook-eyes., 2023
Anti-climb paint, paper and sapele mahogany
91 x 91 x 6cm
Run, Jip, run. Jip runs, Alice runs. Alice has blue eyes.
Jerry has blue eyes. Jerry runs. Alice runs. They run
with their blue eyes. Four blue eyes. Four pretty
blue eyes. Blue-sky eyes. Blue-like Mrs. Forrest’s
blue blouse eyes. Morning-glory-blue-eyes.
Alice-and-Jerry-blue-storybook-eyes., 2023
Anti-climb paint, paper and sapele mahogany
91 x 91 x 6cm
Whims, Yearnings and Antipathies, 2023
Collated woods, brass and nail
3.5 x 91.5 x 4.5 cm
Collated woods, brass and nail
3.5 x 91.5 x 4.5 cm
Whims, Yearnings and Antipathies (detail), 2023
Whims, Yearnings and Antipathies (detail), 2023
(now these here women you don’t have any _______ with. They deliver _____ ____ and with no ____.) Just like horses., 2023
Oil on canvas
40 x 140 cm
Oil on canvas
40 x 140 cm
now these here women... (detail), 2023
now these here women... (detail), 2023
now these here women... (detail), 2023
My whole dress was messed with purple, and it never did wash out. Not the dress nor me. I could feel that purple deep inside me., 2023
Deadstock paper, rope and metal
50 x 40 x 2 cm
Deadstock paper, rope and metal
50 x 40 x 2 cm
My whole dress was messed with purple... (detail), 2023
All of our waste which we dumped on her and which she absorbed., 2023
Mary Jane candy and glass
6.8 x 9.5 x 9.5 cm
Mary Jane candy and glass
6.8 x 9.5 x 9.5 cm
All of our waste which we dumped on her and which she absorbed. (detail), 2023
Incomprehensible Sex Coming To Its Dreaded Fruition; nothing remains but Pecola & the Unyielding Earth, 2023
Sapele mahogany and marigold seeds
22 x 38 x 15 cm
Sapele mahogany and marigold seeds
22 x 38 x 15 cm
Incomprehensible Sex Coming To Its Dreaded Fruition; nothing remains but Pecola & the Unyielding Earth (detail), 2023
She was washing dishes. Her small back hunched over the sink—a winged but grounded bird, intent on the blue void it could not reach., 2023
Brass and polyester
21 x 9 x 12.5 cm
Brass and polyester
21 x 9 x 12.5 cm
She was washing dishes... (detail), 2023
[1] Morrison, T. (2016) The Bluest Eye. Britain, London: Vintage Books. Printed and bound by CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon, CR0 4YY, Pg. 180. Originally published in 1970 in Sabon Roman font by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, USA.
Photography: Joanna Wilk