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A BRIDGE BETWEEN TWO ROOMS
materials 360 pigment prints
1420 translucent photo clips
bike wheel
electrical fittings and lightbulb
sculpture dimensions 2.4 x .8 x .8 meters
8 feet x 31 inches x 31 inches
date 2005/2010
location Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht NL
The skyscraper at 30 St Mary's Axe, London, UK, is commonly referred to as the Gherkin. The building has a specific and unique history within the financial, political and architectural context of London. Although the structure was only opened for business in 2004, it rapidly became an iconic fixture in both popular culture and expressions of the city's identity.
On occasions in 2005, 2007 and 2008 I photographed every window of the Gherkin. I was always at street level.
I later worked with these digital images, correcting perspective and dimensions, and printed out each block of windows as a separate photograph.
Each of these diamond-shaped photographs was then attached to its neighbors using translucent photo-clips. When assembled, they formed a completely hollow self-supporting shell.
The shell structure was hung from floor to ceiling in a standard suburban-type bedroom, lit from within as a lampshade.
Made possible by
the Jan van Eyck Academie
with special thanks to Ron Bernstein and Frans Vos
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