Common Rubbledance

Common Rubbledance is a cluster of eighteen, scrambled self-portraits which underwent variable processes of disfigurement including digital manipulation, physical destruction, and exposure to the elements. What’s left of them subsists, functioning more beneath the image surface than on top of it. The paper-reliefs are fragile but still interchangeable, allowing for numerous reinterpretations and meditations on fragmentation of identity, disillusionment, shame, and the ripple-effects of war—all that which is lost-and-found-and-lost again on the rubble of a collapsed system.

‘Pulvis et umbra sumus.’

Initial inkjet prints measured 8.5 x 11 inches, and the final size of assemblages is 14 x 17 inches.


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