Flaming
Debt compiles performance collages about debt. Each photograph
is a 'pataphysical record of performance of cutting and flaming.
I started these performance-montages during and after the autumn
fires in southern California in 2007. I was trying to get rid
of credit cards. I realized that I wanted to create a walking
piece. The walking was along a tall hill I repeatedly hiked in
early spring at dusk. I shot the sagging canvasses of the late
Steve Parrino at the Palais de Tokyo, the summer before. I collaged
the layers of photographic images of Parrino's canvasses as if
they were clothes hanging on a clothesline, to dry. I paid off
a credit card. I cut up the credit card as a performance. I trashed
the card. The hands and fingers themselves cut up digitally-
I layered back into fields of Parrino/dusk walk. The compilations
of image also borrow from, or are indebted to, various fragments
from Isa Gentzken and the illusionist John Frederick Peto, an
American nineteenth century painter of trompe-l'oeil. The next
performance involves burning cards, as if, grilled tarot.
Materials:
chromogenic print (lightjet)
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