BLINDED BY THE LIGHT
Ella Dawn McGeough
March 28, 2013
March 28, 2013
MARCH 1- APRIL 5, 2013
Reception:
Thursday, March 28, 7-11pm
Artists Involved:
Ella Dawn McGeough“Dazzlement is night in broad daylight, the darkness that rules at the very heart of what is excessive in light’s radiance.”1
We cannot trust our eyes, they seek out dazzle as a reassuring distraction but quickly become arrested in a state of optical vertigo. ‘Blinded by the Light (2)’, Ella Dawn Mcgeough’s most recent edition to a series of large site specific collages using holographic and mirrored vinyl interjected with images of snakeskin and marble offer a gateway and a warning.
1. Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization: A history of insanity in the age of reason.