Divided Mind

Divided Mind is a head taken apart into slices. Each cross-section is laser-engraved on its own plate of clear acrylic, and the plates stand in a row along a turquoise shelf on the wall. The photographs are dated 31 October 2010.

Two views

From the side, the slices smear into one long dark form, and their shadows fall on the wall behind it. Nothing in that view reads as a head.

A close view along the row of clear plates, each engraved with a dark cross-section, standing on the turquoise shelf. — Along the row.

The plates seen at an angle from the far end, the slices stacking into a dark oval as they recede. — From the far end.

The row of clear plates seen end-on, so the engraved slices line up into the dark silhouette of a single head inside a block of acrylic. — From the end, the slices line up.

From the end, the slices line up and the head comes back together inside the block. The piece resolves from one place in the room and comes apart again everywhere else.

Photographs, 2010

Oblique close-up of the etched plates on the turquoise shelf.

Wide view with a model on the shelf above and strong shadows.

Oblique view in warm light, the slices darkening along the row.

Low angle into the row from the front end.

Front elevation of the shelf with layered shadows on the wall.

Low angle with the shelf's shadow cast up the wall.

The clear end of the row with the model above.