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| You Never Really Know a Person | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| installation/performance including marbleized paper, sealing wax, brass tacks, handwriting, and audio Chance Operations piece April 21, 2004 Music by Portishead and Beth Gibbons. |
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| I had seven people of varying degrees of closeness that I have come to know in Cincinnati write what they think or feel of me, or how they know me, or who they think I am on Italian hand marbleized paper. I sealed the letter in front of them, and did not open them again until I hung them open for my class, while I was blind folded. I left the room, and waited in the hallway until they had finished reading, and my instructor, Keith Benjamin, had placed the letters in a large envelope. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| I compiled a CD of music by Portishead and Beth Gibbons, two of the musics that friends has shared with me since I got to Cincinnati. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| I closed by saying, "I have never read these letters." I then sealed the envelope with the same wax seal that the letters bore. "And I never will," was my concluding statement. Thanks to Keith Benjamin, who participated in the piece, and Eric Ruschman, who both participated and helped to document. He took these brilliant photographs. |
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