Romulus and Remus, 2005
Nylon spinnaker, electric blowers, flexible duct
each figure approximately three feet
Attribution:
Explanatory text adapted from conversations with the artist and from essays by Gordon Hatt
Connected through the backs by a short piece of flexible duct, Romulus and Remus resemble blow-up Siamese twins, symbiotic melancholy and brutal co-dependent. These babies inflate quickly and forcefully, literally sucking the air from its counterpart while deflation is experienced empathetically, as though it were a complete human expiration. The power of this work is that when a figure loses air, it is seemingly the illusion of physical life itself that disappears.