Scylla and Charybdis were immortal monsters flanking the narrow waters traversed by Odysseus in Homer's epic tale, forcing a nearly impossible decision between two evils. One episode of James Joyce’s Ulysses, named for these immortals, recontextualizes Odysseus’ battle in the form of a philosophical debate in the National Library.
2017. This series of cyanotypes, titled The Devil and The Deep Sea, was created with a cameraless photographic printing process on site at Mathew Gallery, built around the physical structure of the gallery’s fire escape. The reconfigured lines of the fire escape and the cyan-blue color of the prints both reference navigation and the sea, also hinting at the exercise of mind mapping in discerning what and how we believe.
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These works were created as part of the Montez @ Mathew summer residency program at Mathew's NYC location; a selection was later integrated into the book The Only Thing That’s New Is Us, released by Montez Press in 2018.
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