We live in a world of lost meanings. Journey to the Land of the
Tarahumara explores my preoccupation with the undecipherable signs
transmitted to us by extinct cultures, signs scattered around
the world that now exist solely in material form as if they were
empty shells. The title of the series evokes the hallucinatory
journey made by Antonine Artaud, surrealist poet and playwright,
to the secluded and little-known Tarahumaran people of Mexico
in 1936. On my own travels around the world I've looked for and
photographed 'mysterious symbols' engraved on rocks by earlier
cultures. The images in this series are the result of rethinking
and re-presenting those symbols as configurations of prints that
directly illustrate their power. These works record my personal
meditation on remnants, fragments and lost meanings.
Red,
pink, orange, grey, tan: each consists of 36 pigment prints, individually
framed, installed as one unit
121 x 121 cm


Black
1 & 2 - each consists of 25 pigment prints, individually framed,
installed as one unit
234 x 234 cm

Yellow-
36 pigment prints, individually framed, installed as one unit
182.9 x 182.9