Honeymoon Suites, 2002-05

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Honeymoon Suites, 2002-05,is an investigation of the supper-glossy honeymoon resort brochures I collected at a wedding convention in 2002. These brochures depict happy-just-married-couples in their honeymoon suites, engaging in pre/post-coital bliss. I use very small fragments of the larger images in the brochures, averting my gaze to the periphery of the images. Here I find (among the stoic columns everywhere) perfect candy-colored horizons, blue skies with perfectly manicured unadulterated white fluffy clouds, never ending pinkish sunsets. I concentrate on the horizon: referencing the work of Hiroshi Sugimoto, my horizons are a kind of global travel, but through the absurdity of the marketing of love. The false color in the original source material reveals the constructed notion of romance through marketing. In the context of the honeymoon resort, while signifying perfect love and escape, the horizon actually points to the ultimate un-attainability of both.


Honeymoon Suites (From Honeymoon Resort Brochures), Installation at Bernard Toale Gallery, 2004, 11 of 50, 24” x 32” archival inkjet prints


Honeymoon Suites (from Honeymoon Resort Brochures)Grounded, 2005, 28 archival inkjet prints, variable sizes 5” x 7” - 12” x 16”


Blue Skies (From Honeymoon Resort Brochures) Grounded, 2005, 15 - 5” x 7” archival inkjet prints


Red Skies (from Honeymoon Resort Brochures), 2005, 108 - 4” x 6” c-prints