











This is an exhibition about muteness and linguistic affect, tools used to mitigate the atrocity of our world. Here, language is understood as a vehicle for impacted feeling as much as its blockade. Many texts add up to an imperfect and inadequate language, sourced from a wide range of fields and disciplines: military reference books and dictionaries, hymn and songbooks, compositional assignments, literary criticism, books on anagrams, codes and ciphers, riddles and idioms, newspapers, and a theater script. My son mistakenly called a parrot a poet, and that perfect slip of the tongue entered the work too. Language — less fixed than










viceroy viceroy viceroy w/ Common Name

















darken, america, symbol, liberty, freedom, emblem, paradise, thunder

































world is a word w/ Suzanne Silver



w/ Sandra Erbacher

w/ Sandra Erbacher





uav's/paper airplanes, zeppelins/phalluses, guns (Bushmaster XM-15), guns (Glock 41), to/, of/, /of

























ri ve rr yh me sw it hb lo od










carrels





e - m - e - r - g - e - n - c - y







monkey - dolphin - mouse - poodle - war












clippings




















history database



a, b , moon, d



















this single monument






untitled #5, pigmented inkjet print, 21" x 17"








exhibition view, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY, 2014






TIME, WOMEN, STARS, DEATH, SLEEP, FLOWERS, LIFE, EYES, A RIVER, DREAMS













no whiteness (lost) is so white as the memory of whiteness














eyes that are like two suns









eyes like are like two suns (book)













the fold (Giza 1979/2009)








sentimental, mother / other