Terminus
Fowler Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Fingerprint Project are site-specific installations that link the ideas of personal migration (and identity) and interdependence. They result from a longer process that begins by collecting molds of friends’ fingertips, casting them in wax and mounting them in patterns mimicking migratory patterns (e.g., how birds flock, insects swarm, or animals move in herds) on simple light blue fields painted directly on the wall. Shadows are then drawn in with sumi-ink and powdered graphite. The result is a space in which it is difficult to tell what floats above and what is painted on to the wall, a space in which the co-creative acts of relationships, migration, and ultimately reality.
"Terminus" is included in The Missing Peace: Artists and the Dalai Lama exhibition, which started in LA and travelled to Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Tokyo, Madrid and Miami.
