Cenotaph for Holly
© 1989
Media: oil on wood, with glass and flip-card animation in rolodex
Location: in a collection
42.5 x 37 x 21.25 inches (108 x 94 x 54 cm)
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For those of you with low vision:
This mixed-media piece becomes sculptural as it extends into space. Sitting flush against the wall is a dark blue panel with the painting of a cropped view of a “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” poster. A found telephone hangs on the wall at the lower right corner. Painted diagonally, extending from the upper left to the bottom right of the painting, is a pattern of shadows of leaves cast as light floods through the window. A glass panel extends out at a 90-degree angle from the wall in a wooden frame with half of the openings of a ticket booth window, as if the foreground half of the window has been sliced off, top to bottom. Sitting on the countertop at the bottom of the window is a flip-card animation that you can spin in an old rolodex... the scene from "Breakfast in Tiffany's" where they fall in love in the rain.
