Museo Nacional De La Estampa 2007

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A large installation occupying the entire first floor of the museum consisting of appropriated radiation masks used by patients from the United States as well as Mexico.

 

Some masks were manipulated by me.

Most were not.

I placed them in dialogue with each other, addressing the commonality and universality of this horrible experience. The passage through discovery, horror, helplessness, rage, asking for help, surgery, curiosity about the tumor object itself, post-operative care, radiation itself, the use of the mask as both object of horror and liberator, the uncertainty of a future, relentless rage, and ultimate passage of both physical and spiritual transformation are addressed in sequence.

 

Works on paper, sculpture, appropriated material. It is all one piece, designed to be seen as a whole I have terrible dreams at times about this work.