Point of Impact
Archival inkjet prints
13x13" each
2004
Exhibited in full:
“Torrid” juried exhibition, Sharadin Art Gallery, Kutztown, PA
The term “point of impact” can here be substituted with the term “point of sale,” or more specifically, the moment at which an object fulfills its primary objective – to be purchased. Taking that exact moment in time as being paramount to the actions both before and after the event, this series draws reference to another event whose precise defining moment is also typically overlooked – the explosion. While it is always the pre- or post-destruction space which garners our attention, the moment of impact is that by which the space is actually reshaped. This is not to say that the pre- or post-space should be forgotten. After all, we do not purchase a product with its primary function (to be purchased) in mind, we buy it because we need or want it. But the sale (detonation), often wrapped in the guise of an appeal to our personal degrees of affluence, occurs – and the redefinition of space continues.
