Salt, Sugar and Cornstarch 2003

Owen Smith
Gestures 5: May 11 – June 15, 2003
Materials
digital print, glue

By a strange manipulation of scale (through scanning and photography) images of common materials are transformed.

Description

By a strange manipulation of scale (through scanning and photography) images of common materials are transformed. Sugar, salt and cornstarch are employed to evoke William Blake’s “To see a World in a Grain of Sand.” Sugar becomes the Milky Way.