Selena Kimball
Jefferson's Bible — Beginning with photomontage of the printed New York Times these physical interventions into the official record were made in dialog with the early American cut-up "Jeffersons Bible" (pictured in foreground)
Atlas of Air — An ongoing collection of "empty" spaces, mostly air or sky, cut from the front pages of the New York Times
Within the Faint Positive — Collaged unfixed photograms and permanent ink, made while retracing a 19th-century botanist's plant-hunting route through China — works that will disappear when exhibited
Milky Way — uses photographic fragments from American history books, physically cut and reconfigured to look like NASA’s most recent Hubble map of the Milky Way
Night Vision — large-scale relief sculptures re-describing the Hindu Kush mountains. They are made from inkjet printouts of night vision photographs taken by American soldiers in Afghanistan
No on came to meet me Reworking Joseph Francis Rock's 1924-25 National Geographic documentation of the Tibet-China borderlands — photography that helped spawn the Western myth of Shangri-La — postulating new objects of encounter.
