Title 9.81
Gravity: The force that attracts a body toward the center of the earth, or toward any other physical body having mass.
In life’s journey, we throw ourselves at many things, lovers, work, passions, and habits. If we throw with too little momentum, we fall back, as captured by gravity. With too much momentum, our lives can speed out of control, and yet, sometimes achieving balance, an endless orbit, can leave us in an interminable tug-of-war between staying on path, or the yearn to fall back, the ultimate gravity of consequences.
This series is a growing collection that explores that connection.
Title 9.81 (the speed of gravity) 2020, also draws from the novel: The heaviest of burdens crushes us, we sink beneath it, it pins us to the ground. But in the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body. The heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaneously an image of life's most intense fulfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become. Conversely, the absolute absence of burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into heights, take leave of the earth and his earthly being, and become only half real, his movements as free as they are insignificant. What then shall we choose? Weight or lightness? – Milan Kundera
Stated sizes may be close approximations.
Contact me for custom larger sizes
Pigment Print on 100% cotton rag paper, editions of 8, 4, 2 respectively, signed, titled, and numbered.
Contact me for shipping quote.
Gravity: The force that attracts a body toward the center of the earth, or toward any other physical body having mass.
In life’s journey, we throw ourselves at many things, lovers, work, passions, and habits. If we throw with too little momentum, we fall back, as captured by gravity. With too much momentum, our lives can speed out of control, and yet, sometimes achieving balance, an endless orbit, can leave us in an interminable tug-of-war between staying on path, or the yearn to fall back, the ultimate gravity of consequences.
This series is a growing collection that explores that connection.
Title 9.81 (the speed of gravity) 2020, also draws from the novel: The heaviest of burdens crushes us, we sink beneath it, it pins us to the ground. But in the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body. The heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaneously an image of life's most intense fulfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become. Conversely, the absolute absence of burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into heights, take leave of the earth and his earthly being, and become only half real, his movements as free as they are insignificant. What then shall we choose? Weight or lightness? – Milan Kundera
Stated sizes may be close approximations.
Contact me for custom larger sizes
Pigment Print on 100% cotton rag paper, editions of 8, 4, 2 respectively, signed, titled, and numbered.
Contact me for shipping quote.
Gravity: The force that attracts a body toward the center of the earth, or toward any other physical body having mass.
In life’s journey, we throw ourselves at many things, lovers, work, passions, and habits. If we throw with too little momentum, we fall back, as captured by gravity. With too much momentum, our lives can speed out of control, and yet, sometimes achieving balance, an endless orbit, can leave us in an interminable tug-of-war between staying on path, or the yearn to fall back, the ultimate gravity of consequences.
This series is a growing collection that explores that connection.
Title 9.81 (the speed of gravity) 2020, also draws from the novel: The heaviest of burdens crushes us, we sink beneath it, it pins us to the ground. But in the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body. The heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaneously an image of life's most intense fulfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become. Conversely, the absolute absence of burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into heights, take leave of the earth and his earthly being, and become only half real, his movements as free as they are insignificant. What then shall we choose? Weight or lightness? – Milan Kundera
Stated sizes may be close approximations.
Contact me for custom larger sizes
Pigment Print on 100% cotton rag paper, editions of 8, 4, 2 respectively, signed, titled, and numbered.
Contact me for shipping quote.