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( ) (2018) - intaglio, abaca pulp
24” x 32” x 2”

Thinking of the parenthesis as a tool that, in writing or books, adds information that is important enough to print, but that it was, for whatever reason, omitted from the text body. The central hole on what is otherwise a flat surface on that side in between the parenthesis represents my ideas of a black hole. The back of the piece has a lump where the hole sinks on the flat side, as evidence of its presence, the vacancy between whatever the parenthesis contains. I think of this opening as something that is just not there, but meant to be there.