The FarNear
performance with 25 ft. clothesline, custom harnesses, edible paper and ink
originally performed at Fosdick-Nelson Gallery in 2016, photographed by Shauna Caldwell in 2022
Imagining reading as an act of both looking (distance) and consumption (closeness), the handwritten pages of The FarNear serve as a physical point where we can be near to and far from one another. By consuming the pages as we read them, we physically collapse looking and eating into one operation. We are both impossibly far and as close as can be.
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“So she creates in her mind a dream of distance where food can be enjoyed perhaps from across the room merely by looking at it, where desire need not end in perishing, where the lover can stay, at the same time, near to and far from the object of her love.” - Anne Carson
