"Interiors" is a photo/collage intervention in a copy of "Comment Installer Son Intérieur en Louis XVI", France 1963, found in a used bookstore. The entire book is used as a springboard/collage base for multiple proof images from my photo series from the last 20 years. Images of the eroticized male body, abstracted landscapes from airplane flight, re-photographed anatomy charts are placed in dialog with the overwrought pretension of mid-century attempts to domesticate imperial glamor. I have used my imagery to simultaneously comment on this pomposity and eliminate nearly all text. The resulting cacophony responds to the original layouts of the book spreads, creating a one of a kind object that can barely contain the "opulence", real or imagined.
The submitted images represent several entire spreads in the final work, as well as some individual pages. At present it is unclear if this can/should be evolved into a facsimile artist-book edition, or be potentially dismembered into individual collages for conventional framing and/or exhibition.
