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Circumfessional Hymenal Sea (Portrait of Jacques Derrida)

2006
books, paper, wood, silver-point, paint
77 x 77 x 62 inches

An ivory tower to leap from and into.

The image of this work originated in a dream and immediately made sense of Derrida’s quip that he had read only four books out of his entire library. The sea is comprised of pages from books.