Nought Nowhere was Never Reached
2005-2007
Archival pigment inkjet on fine art paper
Dimensions variable
Nought nowhere was never reached is a series of digital prints of asteroid belts. They were created by photographing potatoes in the studio and gently guiding them into orbital randomness on the computer.
The title is from a passage in James Joyce's Ulysses where Leopold Bloom and Stephen spend the evening contemplating scale from the infinity of the universe to the deceiving finiteness of the molecule.
Were there obverse meditations of involution increasingly less vast?
Of the eons of geological periods recorded in the stratifications of the earth: of the myriad minute entomological organic existences concealed
in cavities of the earth, beneath removable stones, in hives and mounds, of
microbes, germs, bacteria, bacilli, spermatozoa: of the incalculable
trillions of billions of millions of imperceptible molecules contained by
cohesion of molecular affinity in a single pinhead: of the universe of human
serum constellated with red and white bodies, themselves universes of void
space constellated with other bodies, each, in continuity, its universe of
divisible component bodies of which each was again divisible in divisions of
redivisible component bodies, dividends and divisors ever diminishing
without actual division till, if the progress were carried far enough,
nought nowhere was never reached.
-James Joyce
Vinyl print installation at YBCA, San Francisco, CA
Installation view at David Salow Gallery, Los Angeles 2008
Installation at Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA (prints on right side only)
Nought Nowhere was Never Reached I
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Nought Nowhere was Never Reached II
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Nocturnal Peramulations I
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Nocturnal Peramulations II
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