The anonymity, or Imitation and Imagining of Man Ray’s “Tears (1930-1932)”, 2010
The anonymity, or Imitation and Imagining of Man Ray’s “Tears (1930-1932)”, 2010
single channel video with sound, 11’33”
Through alternating music and the repetitive sound of gentle waves lapping the shore, the video begins with a long shot
observing a scantily clad boy standing statue-like on a rock and winds up with a close-up of the boy’s face dotted with
fake pearls reminiscent of the melancholy teardrops in Man Ray’s widely known photograph of 1930, Tears.