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Silver gelatin photographs
Ten photographs at 11” x 11”
2008

A suite of photographic silver gelatin prints of modern pieces of silver (trays, pitchers and bowls) from a private collection in Philadelphia. The title references the symbol for silver in the periodic table, which lists the 118 chemical elements that cannot be broken down into separate substances–each element is composed of unique, identical atoms. Thus, these photographs and the objects they depict are composed of the same material. Collapsing the medium and subject–using silver to create images of silver–these photographs confound the distinctions between representation and the real.