NO WORDS (As I Read), 2023

Digital photograph, 30” x 21.5”

The still reproduced above is from Antonioni’s film Blow-Up (1966).The newspaper on the back seat of the car has been altered with the addition of a still of a crosswalk taken from Antonioni’s film L’eclisse (1962). The text NESSUNA PAROLA has been added to the newspaper.

Placed below this photograph is a photograph of the back of my head as I read an Italian newspaper at an outdoor cafe in Toronto. The newspaper has been altered with the addition of a still from Antonioni’s documentary Superstition (1949). The text below it, “But he was satisfied to watch me as I read”, is a subtitle taken from Antonioni’s film La Notte (1961). The text NO WORDS has been added at the bottom of the newspaper page. The book Marco Aurelio: Pensieri, an Italian translation of The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius has replaced one of the books along the right side of the newspaper.