Blind FIeld

Out beyond ideas of wrong-doing and right-doing there is a field.
I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.

Rumi

Seven photographs of a screen are hung in a row. Each print is framed under highly reflective glass, and each is 36 x 50 inches, approximately the size of residential window. The image of a window screen forms a tight grid with a single small puncture in the middle, and is repeated in the 7 simplified colors of the rainbow. On a shelf next to the prints is a row of loupes, and a sign. The sign tells the viewer to look closer at the pattern, and that it is ok to touch the prints.

When the viewer views the print with a loupe, the colors dissolve into multiplicity, and it is revealed that each color is formed with all of the other colors woven together. As they press the loupe against the glass their body curls into the shape of looking, and the marks they leave behind become an index of presence.

After the show, the prints left on the glass are used to make contact prints for future iterations of the exhibition.