(2012) Dimensions variable. Blown glass, overhead projector, drawings on tracing paper, pencil, table, shadow.
I collected all of the glass objects that I produced as technical exercises, and teaching demonstrations for a year. They were carefully arranged to produce a shadow of myself reclining when lit from a single light source - an overhead projector littered with sketches that I had worked from while making the glass vessels. Left on the projector was a seemingly carelessly placed pencil that added a phallic shadow to the portrait.
While making this project I found a travel journal from my childhood. I had written about a visit to Marino Marini's bronze sculpture, "L'Angelo Della Citta," commissioned by Peggy Guggenheim in Venice. As an adult I discovered that the figure had a threaded bronze penis that could be removed depending on who was visiting the museum.
My project was last shown in a museum in Denmark where the size and attitude of the pencil was adjusted daily based on the expected visitors to the exhibition. On the final day of the show, viewers were each allowed to take away a piece of glass until all that remained was a disembodied phallic shadow.
