ARTWORK >> WHAT YOU CAN'T SEE
What You Can’t See
Cut grid paper
37 x 27.5 inches each (94 x 70 cm)
2007-09
What You Can’t See is a series of Jesus’ loincloths, isolated from Italian Renaissance paintings, and reproduced life-size by cutting sheets of grid paper. In their transformation from two to three dimensions, the cut loincloths no longer conceal, enticing an examination of that which is covered, hidden, or simply not known - specifically regarding the separation of sexuality from divinity within Christianity. The series includes loincloths from paintings by the following artists: Cimabue (c.1288), Giotto (c.1305), Duccio (c.1307), Cavallini (1308), Masaccio (1426), Fra Angelico (c.1440), Della Francesca (c.1450), Bellini (c.1468), Perugino (c.1483), Luini (c.1530), Tintoretto (1565), and Carracci (1583).
