john david o’brien
"A Gathering"
This installation was about different types of knowledge: the unusual kind of things that can be known by direct experience (the wall drawings are taken from written accounts of miraculous happenings) and the normal way things are known by the words that we name them with (the card catalogs become a kind of exoskeleton of the titles from the library). The drawn images were absorbed into the wallboard over the course of the exhibition and disappeared by the closing.