Quiddity, negative 7

Merle Addison
February 22, 2003


object image

Creative Access Description

Black and white portrait image of a white man kneeling on the floor and leaning forward with both hands together holding a piece of soapstone to a sheet of sandpaper that is attached to the floor. The man has short hair and thin framed glasses and wears a white t shirt and dark pants. A tripod is set up above the man's hands, on which is mounted a video camera pointing straight down to capture him working from a printed image that lays on the ground to his left. Behind the man, a projection falls on a small screen mounted on the wall above and behind the man. The projection shows the man's hands and hands holding the soapstone and overlapping circular patterns he has polished into the sandpaper. Assorted performance supplies are arranged against the wall behind the man, as well a small clip-on lamp pointing upward from the floor to partially light the space, its beams falling on the white wall to the man's right, and casting shadows on the covered grid of windows that make up the wall behind him.

Description

Documentation of Quiddity. Merle Addison is pictured performing. 

Identifier

2003.0222 QUI I002

Extent

1 35mm negative

Photographer

Donna Hagerman

Related program

Quiddity (Related)
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