Here's Lookin' at You, 2004
collaboration with Marcin Balicki and Robert de Saint Phalle
Terminal 5, New York
mixed media
85" x 30" x 65"

“Here’s Lookin’ at You,” designed for Terminal 5 at JFK International Airport, examines the increasingly blurred boundary between public and private life after 9/11 and the ownership of one’s image in the information age. The viewer enters a seemingly conventional booth, closes the privacy curtain, inserts money, and poses for the timed strobes. When the photo strip is developed, however, the images appear not as standard frontal shots, but as seen from above by a hidden security camera inside the booth. The keepsake images produced by “Here’s Lookin’ at You “ is a reclamation of one’s skewed, captured image. The booth’s camouflage of familiarity enhances the disturbing effect of its product.

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