Randomized Text, History of Stars #2, 2006
- Artist
Charles Gaines
- Title
Randomized Text, History of Stars #2
- Date
2006
- Medium
Digital print and color pencil on paper
- Dimensions
Frame: 54 3/4 x 22 1/2 x 1 1/2 in. (139.1 x 57.2 x 3.8 cm)
- Credit line
The Studio Museum in Harlem; Museum purchase with funds provided by the Acquisition Committee
- Object Number
2007.21
Invested in the meaning of systems and structures, Charles Gaines here juxtaposes what appear to be random images and phrases to test the expansive potential of language. A photograph of the night sky is paired with arbitrarily sequenced sentences from two iconic texts: Gabriel García Márquez’s novel Love in the Time of Cholera (1985) and cultural theorist Edward Said’s groundbreaking book Orientalism (1978). Sentence by sentence, Gaines produces a new, poetic message that signals the way in which words, much like the cosmos, are haphazard until assigned subjective meaning through the endless possibilities of a human perspective.
Randomized Text, History of Stars #2, 2006
- Artist
Charles Gaines
- Title
Randomized Text, History of Stars #2
- Date
2006
- Medium
Digital print and color pencil on paper
- Dimensions
Frame: 54 3/4 x 22 1/2 x 1 1/2 in. (139.1 x 57.2 x 3.8 cm)
- Credit line
The Studio Museum in Harlem; Museum purchase with funds provided by the Acquisition Committee
- Object Number
2007.21
Invested in the meaning of systems and structures, Charles Gaines here juxtaposes what appear to be random images and phrases to test the expansive potential of language. A photograph of the night sky is paired with arbitrarily sequenced sentences from two iconic texts: Gabriel García Márquez’s novel Love in the Time of Cholera (1985) and cultural theorist Edward Said’s groundbreaking book Orientalism (1978). Sentence by sentence, Gaines produces a new, poetic message that signals the way in which words, much like the cosmos, are haphazard until assigned subjective meaning through the endless possibilities of a human perspective.