Looking (Distributed)
2026
Mixed-media assemblage

Looking (Distributed) is composed of three metal panels installed together on the wall, each holding a different kind of accumulated material.

Starting from the bottom, the first panel holds ephemera collected across the artist’s life.

A dated envelope in Mother’s handwriting from 1989 contains hair from the artist’s first haircut. Father’s laminated high school diploma. The artist’s Social Security card. Badges from his high school years layered over cards, photographs, and other paper objects.

Photographs of Fred and The Rigley Field under construction share space with a card from Joan, sugar packets from Bar Luce in Milan, a napkin from Saint-Brieuc from 2005, and gifted drawings of Ezra and The Rigley Field.

These objects come from different people, places, and periods. On the panel, they occupy the same field without being organized chronologically or by importance.

Above it is a field of Altoids tins. Each can be removed and opened individually, revealing a different photograph of the gallery or a work within Volume I. From a distance they read as a repeated grid. Up close, each becomes its own container of information.

The upper panel brings objects and finished works together. A hunting arrow found on the property is magnetically attached alongside individual Data Framed pieces, each containing its own meaning and context. Finished works and material still being looked at are allowed to share the same surface.

The panels can be encountered individually, from a distance, or through the removal and examination of what they hold. Information changes depending on how close the viewer gets and what they choose to look at.

Together, the three panels form an exclamation point.

There is no fixed instruction for which panel is the point and which is the dot. The same three fields can be read differently depending on how the viewer assembles them.

Looking is distributed across the work rather than directed toward a single thing.