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.