Touch, Taste, Remember, 2008
Jewish Contemporary Museum
San Francisco, California

Duraclears and layered glass

Touch, Taste, Remember explores through layering, light, and photographic imagery, the notions of symbol, memory and journey inherent in the traditions surrounding Passover and the Seder plate. The work consists of six clear, flat, round, 18" diameter, stacked glass "plates". Sandwiched between each of the glass plates is an 18" diameter photographic transparency of a hand or hands interacting with one of the items on the plate (bitter herbs, egg in salt water, etc.). Each of these interactions is positioned in a section of the individual photograph so that when all six layered images are viewed together from above, there is a clear sense of depth, as if looking into a pool of "memory", six separate interactions happening at six separate times but presented concurrently.

The glass "plates" with their layered images are stacked on an 18" diameter base unit which houses the lighting source. The light unit is covered by a semi-opaque 18" diameter milk glass plate and encased around its circumference with a 2" high fabricated band of metal, creating in its totality with the glass and transparent photographs a round, stacked- image light box.




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