What You're Looking At...
5:40 in the morning, March 23rd, 2020. The world shutting down, everybody locked inside their own heads, and there’s this figure out on Santa Cruz’s Westside, standing in front of that surfing statue like some hazmat prophet at the edge of the Pacific, the sky rolling overhead like it’s got something to say and no intention of saying it clearly. This is Euripides dragged out of the grave and dropped on the shoreline. A fragment from one of his lost tragedies, words that survived two and a half thousand years by the skin of their teeth, fused with site-responsive environmental art, wrapped around a public monument most people drive past without a second look.
I call it The Man Who Knows. And standing there in that yellow suit against that apocalyptic sky, you get the sense that what he knows isn’t comforting.
This is one piece of IOTA, a larger, ongoing project that takes the surviving textual fragments of the lost plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides and gives them physical form in the real world. Every print sold feeds directly back into producing the next fragment, keeping this whole unlikely enterprise alive.
Signed limited edition. 11″ x 17″, run of 25. Image approximately 10″ x 16″, stamped on verso. Printed on Hahnemühle fibre-based Matt paper, because work like this deserves paper that takes it seriously.
Edition of 10. You know the price.
