Believe You Me examines the manner in which books and book imagery continue to deliver status, even in a culture that has turned away from reading—indeed even more powerfully, and more pervasively, than in eras that had not yet given up on the book as a storehouse of knowledge and wisdom.
In these installations and images, books have become vacant props, drafted into private battles and culture wars out of a desperate nostalgia for the fading power of the written word.
Believe You Me
Leather Filler, 2010. Archival pigment print, 30x20 in / 760x510 mm. SOLD OUT
Reading List for America (Osama Bin Laden), 2010. Archival pigment print, 16x24 in / 410x610 mm. Edition of 3
Librarian, 2010. Archival pigment print, 40x26 in / 1170x660 mm. Archival pigment print, 46x30 in / 1170x760 mm. Edition of 3
Known Knowns, Known Unknowns, Unknown Unknowns (Donald Rumsfeld), 2010. Archival pigment print, 40x60 in / 1020x1520 mm. Edition of 3
Retirement Ceremony, 2011. Installed at Land of Tomorrow, Louisville, KY. Interactive Floor, 3500 Federal and Regional Reporters
Stack, 2010. Archival pigment print, 20x30 in / 510x760 mm. Edition of 3
Corroborating Information, 2010. Five archival pigment prints, 10x46 in / 255x1300 mm. Edition of 3
New York Public Library Picture Collection: Sylvia Plath, 2010. Archival pigment print, 28x22 in / 711x559 mm. Edition of 3
New York Public Library Picture Collection: Albert Einstein, 2010. Archival pigment print on canvas. 28x22 in / 711x559 mm. Edition of 3
New York Public Library Picture Collection: Helen Keller, 2010. Archival pigment print on canvas, 28x22 in / 710x560 mm. Edition of 3
New York Public Library Picture Collection: Martin Luther King Jr., 2010. Archival pigment print on canvas, 28x22 in / 710x560 mm. Edition of 3