Post-Script. Photocopy transfer on cue cards, dimensions variable, 2006.
The text in Post-Script is hand written, mechanically reversed and then printed onto cue cards using a chemical process. The result is script one level removed from the hand of the artist. It asserts that it was created by a human hand while the mechanical element distances it from that human creation, therefore questioning and challenging the supremacy of the individual as creator and the artist's authority of their own experience. The content, written to illuminate this process, call into question identity and the relationship between biographical art, spectatorship, and the process by which the viewer decodes meaning from art. The text is a stream of conscious that speaks directly to the viewer – urging them to engage with their own systems of viewing and decoding.
Excerpt from Post-Script;
"If you deduce meaning internally, why is your conclusion not solely reflective of yourself? / Will you decode my images through your own framework and still pin the meaning onto me? / Is slander merely a byproduct of personal art? / Is your critique a review of my artwork or of my experience? ... I am afraid of people who decode images using an uninvestigated framework. / I worry about ideology and non consensual exposition and objectification. / Metaphors misread as anecdotes. / Is the meaning buried by the specifics? / Do you think about the depiction instead of what it depicts?”