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Honeymoon Suites 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
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