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Inside him now the landscape is empty with everything, his hair waves between summer and autumn, silent through the woods. (Amnesia), 2024
Burnt linen
87.6 x 50.8 x 7.6 cm (34.5 x 20 x 3 in)
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Inside him now the landscape is empty with everything, his...
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Fiction is the sunlight in the yellow plaque; here you are before the vanishing floor. (Apollo), 2024
Burnt pine, steel conduits
333.5 x 135 x 135 cm (131.3 x 53.1 x 53.1 in)
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Fiction is the sunlight in the yellow plaque; here you are...
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If it were simple, would he have traveled here? Hugging the shade at the river’s edge, the landscape of his youth, three language planes, and the other voices he owns. (Hypnos), 2024
Aqua resin, fiberglass, copper, lenticular stereoscope, burnt birch, reclaimed barn wood, clockwork, cast iron
198.1 x 91.4 x 58.4 cm (78 x 36 x 23 in)
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If it were simple, would he have traveled here? Hugging the...
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If it were simple, would he have traveled here? Hugging the shade at the river’s edge, the landscape of his youth, three language planes, and the other voices he owns. (Hypnos), 2024 (detail)
Aqua resin, fiberglass, copper, lenticular stereoscope, burnt birch, reclaimed barn wood, clockwork, cast iron
198.1 x 91.4 x 58.4 cm (78 x 36 x 23 in)
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If it were simple, would he have traveled here? Hugging the...
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How many tongues does he have? The water drives a wedge of iron through the edge of his vein. The sun stopped in the sky. The window of the night was sewn to his eyes. (Hypnos), 2024
Engraved Optium acrylic, reclaimed barn wood
2 parts, each: 76.8 x 42.5 x 4.4 cm (30.2 x 16.7 x 1.7 in)
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How many tongues does he have? The water drives a wedge of...
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How many tongues does he have? The water drives a wedge of iron through the edge of his vein. The sun stopped in the sky. The window of the night was sewn to his eyes. (Hypnos), 2024 (detail)
Engraved Optium acrylic, reclaimed barn wood
2 parts, each: 76.8 x 42.5 x 4.4 cm (30.2 x 16.7 x 1.7 in)
© Cole Lu
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How many tongues does he have? The water drives a wedge of...
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The first time someone sent him to the drawing room — tick tock, tick tock — he fell in love with this back-and-forth movement. Later, he learned it was called the withdrawing room; tongue gives the mind a thunder strike, his pulse racing as horses g, 2024
Burnt birch
61 x 45.7 x 3.8 cm (24 x 18 x 1.5 in)
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The first time someone sent him to the drawing room —...
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Here he was, the one who waited. The night is the night; it begins with the morning; on a chair and two dictionaries, eye voices read themselves wounded. (Here he was), 2024
Burnt linen
50.8 x 40.6 x 3.8 cm (20 x 16 x 1.5 in)
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Here he was, the one who waited. The night is the night; it...
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In a room full of books in the world of stories, he couldn't recall one. Which one carries the distance from the trachea to the alveoli out of many beginnings? A dust precisely measured; a logical equation. (Amnesia), 2024
Burnt birch
40.6 x 50.8 x 3.8 cm (16 x 20 x 1.5 in)
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In a room full of books in the world of stories, he...
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Suddenly, we were going. Above him were drapes of burning vines and branches of torched pines. They lit up the sky and rained incessantly. Throughout the long night, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, without letting up for an instant. The hard rain..., 2024
Burnt birch
2 parts, each: 152.4 x 122 x 3.8 cm (60 x 48 x 1.5 in)
Overall: 152.4 x 244 x 3.8 cm (60 x 96.1 x 1.5 in)
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Suddenly, we were going. Above him were drapes of burning...
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“Before the law stands a doorkeeper,” his mother makes sure he firmly memorizes this— the mechanism of existence, the linguistic life of a single person. Each night, he marches on a long journey outside the language so that the garden from the histor, 2024
Burnt birch
152.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm (60 x 36 x 1.5 in)
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“Before the law stands a doorkeeper,” his mother makes...
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His chest was no longer soft, and his lungs were no longer hollow. In those years of stillness, he made letters with topographic sketches; each became a space, and space became a variable. (Oh time your pyramids), 2024
Burnt linen
2 parts, each: 76.2 x 61 x 3.8 cm (30 x 24 x 1.5 in)
Overall: 76.2 x 122 x 3.8 cm (30 x 48 x 1.5 in)
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His chest was no longer soft, and his lungs were no longer...
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The last time he gave his body up, of all seasons, he learned from autumn how to cast the birds away. A year is a small piece beyond the time unit one called a century, in the century where his birth falls; the star had come closer and closer..., 2023
Burnt birch
121.9 x 152.4 x 3.8 cm (48 x 60 x 1.5 in)
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The last time he gave his body up, of all seasons, he...
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While it lives in him, he imagines his scapular spines as small fishing boats at anchor in the river. The vertical border governs his understanding of migration. He repeats the word sleep three times as if he were starting a lullaby. (Nyx), 2023
Burnt linen, rubberwood
91.4 x 50.8 x 7.6 cm (36 x 20 x 3 in)
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While it lives in him, he imagines his scapular spines as...
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Time was longer when October was the eighth month of the year, when everything was thicker, a year in three hundred and four days. Long days sunk into the earth inside him. He dug and dug and dug until a trickle of music entered the forest..., 2023
Burnt birch
40.6 x 50.8 x 3.8 cm (16 x 20 x 1.5 in)
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Time was longer when October was the eighth month of the...
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