Призраки (ghosts)
Each drawing framed in glass represents one of the sixty-six shots in Andrei Tarkovsky’s films, in which a dog appears. The scene is abstracted, and the dog’s movement is represented by a thin graphite line. Tarkovsky’s films, created between 1962 and 1986, are quiet, like drawings. The vignettes in his films seem archetypal and to me, seem to be still happening now—no matter that the dogs, which are mostly German Shepherds, have long gone.
When questioned, Tarkovsky refused talk about the symbolism of these dogs in his films, aside from the comment, “They are [just] dogs.” But in a separate interview, I discovered that he mentioned this, paraphrasing: The night before I left my family and homeland Russia, uncertain if I would ever return, I hosted a farewell party. All of my friends wished me well enthusiastically, but it was my German Shepherd that would not look me in the eye.
Series of 66 glass-framed drawings, 2018, ink & graphite on gessoed paper, handmade cast glass frames (100 percent glass; no black paint is used—only black and clear glass), each frame: 3.75 x 3.75 inches
Призраки (ghosts). Series of 66 glass-framed drawings, 2018, ink & graphite on gessoed paper, handmade cast glass frames (100 percent glass; no black paint is used—only black and clear glass), each frame: 3.75 x 3.75 inches