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UTOPIA

JOANNA KOPCZYK
This is a photographic plate print on commercial silver paper of Mont Blanc as seen from another mountain peak in the Swiss Alps. I choose to “obscure” the mountain (and the big red arrow pointing to it) by placing two spheres directly where it should be, alluding to the scenic viewers one finds when in a public place with large vistas. I remember going to the exact spot when I was eight and being struck with how one could not focus on the entire landscape directly, or even on Mont Blanc. It became obscured within the mass of mountains, and when I used the viewer it became even more displacing, because now I was aware of my body interacting with this odd machine. The silver foil has a similar effect. The photograph is detailed enough to invite the viewer closer, but when they do approach the print, their reflection becomes more and more apparent, especially within the two circles. It begins to function as a sort of hazy mirror, uncomfortably moving in between outward perception and inner contemplation.

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GOODBYE D.C. That’s a wrap.

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ABOVE & BELOW: Joanna Kopczyk

The darker disk on the left is a acetate transfer to a lithographic stone of a black and white printout of a mass grave of the victims of the earthquake in Haiti that took place in January this year. The disk on the right is an abstracted ideal of the surface of Jupiter (a gas giant), as I tend to imagine it, which was drawn directly onto the stone. Somewhere in the back of my head were all those images of individuals, particularly Anna Wintour and the Olsen twins, wearing large circular sunglasses in dark rooms in the middle of winter. I always wonder what goes through the head of such a person (what are they seeing exactly)?

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Work.

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To the greatest human/woman I know- M.

CONGRATULATIONS!

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Yesterday I felt something I hadn’t experienced in a long time- the rush of euphoria racing through my veins. I felt so electric it was wonderful. When you least expect it extraordinary things happen.

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do you remember?

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