Cover to Cover, End to End

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Work: Cover to cover, end to end is an installation of sculpture, sound and video. Visitors enter the room at one end of the 15 foot long bed and walk alongside of it, to the opposite end. The room is filled with a murmur of a subtle heartbeat, slowing down and dying off, then restarting again. On the walls, in two rectangular boxes, a fan is gently moving layers of silk, and a video image of a red waterfall pulsates with the beat.
Installation with cast porcelain, polyurethane, sewing thread, suspension cables, sound, video, fan, silk, wax, and metal boxes 2003.
Photographer: Timea Tihanyi
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“I’m very interested in the historical periods of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment when artistic and scientific interest turned toward the understanding and exploring of our physical being and the nature of its malaise.

It seems to me that at a personal level we all have to retrace this path of discovery about the physical, marveling about the wonders of our bodies and making peace with the fallibility of it.”

-Timea Tihanyi

Timea Tihanyi is an artist and educator based in Seattle, Washington. She teaches art at the University of Washington, and is especially interested in the body as subject matter. When I was a graduate student at UW, she was an invaluable member of my MFA Thesis Committee. With her encouragement, I pursued my exploration of dermatographia as art, and we had many fascinating conversations about skin. As a young artist, it was so helpful to have people on my side who supported and encouraged me to push the work further. Stepping just outside my comfort zone has led to some amazing discoveries.