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Joanne Ross

Couples and One, 1999


Gelatin silver prints overpainted with oil
30" x 40"/20" x 20"/25 x 40"
40" x 30"/25" x 40"


Couples and One is an installation of four mural size re-photographed found images.  The over-painted and marked photographic works examine the relationship between gesture, pose and meaning.  While the manipulated portraits emphasize the difficulty inherit in understanding relationships, the single image of the swimmer, moving parallel to shore, intentionally acts as an opposing metaphor to the impossibility of ever knowing another completely.


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