Elise Goldstein
And she said to her mother, "I found a dead bird on my walk today. I buried her in a shoebox under my bed. She’ll be safe there. And her mother replied, “Darling, all things are safe once they’ve died.” And she said to her mother, "I found a dead bird on my walk today. I buried her in a shoebox under my bed. She'll be safe there." And her mother replied, "Darling, all things are safe once they've died." And she said to her mother, "I found a dead bird on my walk today. I buried her in a shoebox under my bed. She'll be safe there." And her mother replied, "Darling, all things are safe once they've died." And she said to her mother, “I found a dead bird on my walk today. I buried her in a shoebox under my bed. She’ll be safe there.” And her mother replied, “Darling, all things are safe once they’ve died.”
And she said to her mother, "I found a dead bird on my walk today. I buried her in a shoebox under my bed. She'll be safe there."
And she said to her mother, "I found a dead bird on my walk today. I buried her in a shoebox under my bed. She'll be safe there."
And her mother replied, "Darling, all things are safe once they've died."

March 2007
Serigraphs with self-made ink, prepared by mixing titanium powder and semen, printed and painted on duralar.
40" x 28" (each panel)

These prints are installed on glass walls within a glass building. During the day, when light comes in from behind the prints, as the semen-ink blocks the light from traveling through, the images appear grey to black. As the sun sets behind the prints, the grey turns slowly lighter until the prints are lit strictly from within the building, showing the whiteness of the ink.
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