"For the series of photographs, Carlisle hired a professional photographer to document objects under bright-colored light. The style is like that used to document an objet d’art or a scientific specimen, close-cropped and divorced from its context. A video, whose sound serves as the exhibition soundtrack, represents material shifts and distortion in graphite dust on the surface of a shaman drum. Again, the frame eliminates context so that scale is ambiguous. The spectacle represented could be geological in scale or it could be dust on a drum."  more...

Emerson Dorsch Gallery