CALEB CAIN – A BRIEF MOVEMENT AFTER DEATH
2019-04-01Caleb Cain Marcus was inspired to create “A Brief Movement After Death” after the birth of his first child. He writes, “As I watched my daughter interact with the world, I saw how many experiences were ahead of her that I’d already lived. She was moving toward life in all its brilliance and I toward death.” This realization induced the artist to contemplate what happens when we die and how to artistically capture that passage from life to death.
“A Brief Movement After Death” breaks new ground for the artist as he expands beyond traditional photography to create these unique art objects that combine digital and hand-applied mediums. The digital photograph component of the work captures sky and ocean in a vast color range and richness along the coasts of New York and California. A narrow, solid color band at the base of the art object reflects an aggregation of all color within the above sky image. Finally, the artist has created a series of grease pencil markings that form patterns like a flock of birds across the object. These markings are created by suspending a grease pencil from a pendulum and then both swinging the grease pencil and moving the pendulum across the photograph. These three components combine to form these intimately sized unique art objects.
Opposite – A Brief Movement After Death 24, 2017
Exhibition runs through to April 9th, 2019
Rosier Gallery
1915 Tunnel Road
Berkeley
94705 CA
