Desk Trajectories (As Is)2010
8.5 x 11, Risograph on acid free bond, edition 5
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Desk Trajectories (As Is)2010 8.5 x 11, Risograph on acid free bond, edition 5 |
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These desks, once the definitive site of organization and productivity, now sit empty, dusty, and cumbersome - as awkward in their photographic frame as they are in the space in which they are pictured. Uncomfortably occupying the rectangular restraints of their offices (and subsequent picture planes) these giant abstract shapes don't fit nicely. The term As Is indicates a good bargain with perhaps some flaw, but taken here as an ontological statement, As Is points to a sort of existential anxiety: The desk's value, its reason for being, is hinged on its potential for facilitating productivity, and its form is a testament to ideologies of a clean, elegant modernist aesthetic. In these pictures, all efficiency, productivity and elegance is in question - the mere fact that the desk is out of commission, being sold, points to an attendant deflation of these values.
Accompanying the work is a 1200 edition newsprint book publication of 31 images from the series: |