Splatter

2014

437 individual photographs of my face refracted in water, cut out, and domed with resin. The installation and scale is variable.

I made this for a traveling solo show at XPO Gallery Paris and TRANSFER Gallery NYC in 2015.

This was the first work I made by photographing through water on glass. I rigged a camera over a bed, and laid on my back for a week moving water around to collect each individual droplet. I think of Splatter as my “seminal” work—quite literally replicating myself as series of globs. The work also has a horror element to it, with the individual pieces slithering up the wall as if they are going to re-form back into one body. As Walt Whitman said, “I am large—I contain multitudes.”