Self-Consciousness, 1992

44" x 102" installed

cibachromes, photostats, plexiglas, acrylic on paper by Andy Patton

Collection of the National Gallery of Canada

This work is made up of five parts. They are:

a) A cibachrome from a b/w photograph of an ornate mirror into which a colour image of the horsehead nebula has been dropped.

b) A blue acrylic painting on paper by Toronto artist Andy Patton framed beneath glass.

c) A cibachrome of myself, photographing myself mirrored in a reflective wall surface embedded with mica chips.

d) Two texts mounted under blue plexiglas taken from the book The Dirty Duck by mystery writer Martha Grimes.