leather horse blinder, steel cables, tensioners, solid brick of lead encased in glass box with airholes, doorways that turn themselves into gallery “walls”, grass, non-archival reproduction of archival photograph of Harry Houdini (1899) held in the Rare Books and Special Collections Division in the United States of America’s Library of Congress, broken frame glass, installed like a Saint, or like a panopticonic eye, or maybe even both. non-archival photograph of the fate of an un-used concrete slab cast from a wooden form, non-uv protective glass, non-archival photograph of a lover’s shed socks on the ground, non-uv protective glass, non-archival facsimile of legal contract between Sydney Josolyne and Ehrich Weiss in 1914 transferring the American rights to the escape/illusion act “Walking Through A Brick Wall”, broken frame glass, non-archival photograph of text projected onto black-out drapes in a lecture room, non-uv protective glass, level nailed to the wall slightly off gravity, cantilever, wood, red velvet theater curtain just inches above the ground, oxidized copper conduit pipe, solid gold chain necklace, red velvet theater curtain laid along the floor and climbing the wall (too slowly to witness with the naked eye, but surely), oxidized copper conduit pipe rises up twelve feet tall, 3lb and 7.5lb cast iron weight plates sliced in half (what liars!), open and vulnerable sandbag containing billions of millions of ka-trillions of grains of sand, nine feet of mirror which balances it’s bottom-most panel on two claw hammers, gravity,
2022
Walking Through A Brick Wall