Statement

2006

Working on a large scale is always both challenging and exciting. Being faced with a 14x35foot wall opened up so many options that I jumped around indecisively for months before it dawned on me I needed a female figure.

I had been working with extremely narrow vertical compositions none of which seemed applicable for this project. Recent small studies are on painted gray paper, the black and white emerging to solidify the form. I was curious what this effect would be on a gigantic wall. Besides the nude it was clear to me that runic writing would play a pivotal role. I've been incorporating ancient Hungarian writing for years as a means to suggest the passage of time. So the irony of using an obsolete, obscure 1000 year old writing system on an installation which would also be temporary seemed appropriate. The text itself is about science and faith, and how societies struggle to hold in equilibrium seemingly opposing concepts.

Ultimately though the image is about the human body on a grand scale – its drama, its vulnerability, its engagement with the space, its engagement with the viewer.

George Kozmon