The Back of Her Head Opens Into a Spout

The Back of Her Head Opens Into a Spout is an exercise in ekphrasis and collecting, a test with pictures and words of the vessel as expanding metaphor. It is a study in perspective, conditioning, and mutation.

The vessel is a prime object, an irreducible form—it can be elaborated in many ways, but it must always be hollow.

It is a bracket marking human metabolism inside a long history of other selves; artifacts cluster like pins on a map.

It is a metaphor of place—from Aristotle’s wine bottle, “the innermost motionless boundary” of the wine, to the maternal body, the lively innermost boundary of the fetus.

The inside of the bottle is a point of view, a contained place from which to look outward.

The project comprises a book, video, installation, sculpture, and performance.

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