Postminimalist altered photograph(s) on canvas.

on loss of contact, touch, permanence; gradual absence of identity, of perceptive identity and loss of self with loss of memory, human social perception; the loss of a permanence which none of us truly may ascertain:

“self presses, self grazes, self strokes, self resigns, self dissipates, self does not exist, self did not exist, has not existed, is to be invented, assembled, honed, re-dissipated, forgotten again, …”

(statement quotation posits to be an interpolation of the Torah in its invocation of the varied and turbulent activity of the heart, referencing a recentering of humanity as often personified by the heart toward the self, the individual, the commodity destabilized and existentially torn in conflict.)