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ECONOMY is the first chapter of Walden by Henry David Thoreau projected onto a wall or screen, one word at a time, each word fading into the next. The text is stored on computer and the work has a total running time of 37 hours and 53 minutes.
The EVERYONE PROJECTIONS attempt to show the name of each person an individual met in their lifetime. Each name fades slowly up from black, pauses for a moment, and fades down to black. The text is stored on computer and projected in a lit room.
The CARDS are a series of unlimited editions, free to take away from plastic holders. They show quotations from the writings of other artists.
The STUDIO PAINTINGS show the address at which an artist or writer worked.
They are an ongoing series, begun in 1994.
The POSTERS show texts taken from the writings of other artists. The Hans Christian Andersen posters refer to his fear of being buried alive, a fear that meant he left a note by his bedside that said 'I only appear to be dead'.
The STATEMENT PAINTINGS show texts taken from the writings of other artists.
The ISLAND PAINTINGS show the names of fictional islands. Despair is the name Robinson Crusoe gave to the island on which he was shipwrecked.
The four panels of MONT SAINTE-VICTOIRE list all the titles given to Cézannes paintings of the mountain.
The eight large panels of CIRCUMNAVIGATION list each place Charles Darwin's ship The Beagle stopped on his journey round the world. The Sandwalk is a single small painting that shows the name of the circular path that he obsessively walked around in his garden at home.
THE FOUNDATIONS OF JUDO by YVES KLEIN, translated and typeset for The Everyday Press, London.
The first English translation of Yves Klein's 1954 book
Les Fondements du Judo
, typeset and printed in a
transimile
of the original.
SOL SANS is a typeface based on Sol LeWitt's handwritten sentences on conceptual art.
IDEAS is a postcard produced with Peter Foolen Editions, Eindhoven, Netherlands.
COUPLES is a work in progress, based on John Updike's 1968 novel.
The BUSINESS CARDS are a letterpress
transimile
of Yves Klein’s business card
circa
1955 in an unlimited edition.
PROVERBS OF HELL by William Blake typeset in Sol Sans.
THE SUN IS BUT A MORNING STAR - two prints derived from the title page of Walden by Henry David Thoreau.
MAZDAZNAN HEALTH & BREATH CULTURE
Forthcoming in 2012: a newly edited, illustrated & addended edition of Dr. Otoman Zar-Adusht Ha'nish's book to be published by Open Editions, London and The Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University.