Out, Out, Brief Candle!
Out, Out, Brief Candle! depicts the relationship between early cinema and archaeology, when "Egyptomania" created a two-way circuit: magic lantern shows and early films found an eerie subject and muse in Egypt, and real-life spectacles such as the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb produced accounts of entombed treasures and Pharaohs' curses.
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Out, Out, Brief Candle!
2014
Marker, graphite, and drawing collage on paper
42 x 52 in.