THREE STORIES DEEP: PHANTOM LIMB (unfinished detail)
Oil on linen
40" x 50", 2007
THREE STORIES DEEP: PHANTOM LIMB (installation view)
New York Public Library, Mulberry Street Branch
Dimensions variable, 2007
THREE STORIES DEEP: PHANTOM LIMB (pre-installation)
Oil on linen
Dimensions variable, 2007
“[...] Three Stories Deep: Phantom Limb, an installation of 12 paintings [...] started with the idea of random arrangement, of construction with no real purpose. This piece has evolved to include a narrative originating with a phantom limb as the author. At the end of this narrative sits a lone painting, a teetering stack of six bricks, which brings to mind Carl Andre's Manifest Destiny (1986), while evoking the spirit of the infinity monkey theorem in a more haunting and sinister way. It is in this way that the work contrast the random wastefulness with the optimism embodied in the emergence of new art movements. 
How many more strokes on a canvas must the phantom limb make in order to produce another work, another monument, to over shadow the rubble and destruction left in it's path? How many more bombs must be dropped to carve out a region as strong as the Roman Empire at its height?”
Text from the press release for Three Stories Deep, the exhibition at New York Public Library, Mulberry Street Branch, 10 Jersey Street, New York City, New York 10012. November 7th - December 19th, 2007.
left inset top:
Carl Andre, Manifest Destiny, 1968.
Bricks. ~3" x 9" x 4'
Donald Judd Foundation, 101 Spring St., SoHo, New York
left inset bottom:
Monkey Typing, date ?
Public domain illustration of wiki's entry for the infinite monkey theorem.
