Souvenir
2004-06
13 pigmented
ink-jet prints
3 vertical
diptychs pigmented ink-jet prints
Dimensions
variable to 40 x 120 inches / 101 x 304.8 cm
Editions
of five
And when all the celebrations are
over it remains only to pick up all the ornaments-all the accessories of the
celebration-and by burning them, make a celebration. This is dondo-yaki, a
Shinto blessing of the debris that have a right to immortality: the last
state-before their disappearance-of the poignancy of things. Abandonment must
be a feast; laceration must be a feast. And the farewell to all that one has
lost, broken, used, must be ennobled by a ceremony.
-Chris Marker
Sans Soleil