A million x is constructed from fine Japanese papers, torn plastic bags, and long scrolls of repair tape, upon which Daou has hand- scrawled the mark x exactly onemillion times. Imposing … Read More
A million x is constructed from fine Japanese papers, torn plastic bags, and long scrolls of repair tape, upon which Daou has hand- scrawled the mark x exactly onemillion times. Imposing and yet suggestive of disintegration, the work registers the desperate ambition to grasp or control the immeasurable. In an accompanying sound piece Daou can be heard writing and counting off the xs she has completed. Through a polyphony that swells and subsides in waves, the act of mark making is captured in its feverishness and monotony.
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