The Trotline

Max Heldman

About 1978

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A geometric pattern familiar from many global traditions--whether textiles like American quilts, Persian carpets, Laotian appliques, and Bhutanese kira or tiled walls and floors or woodwork, Amighi has here harnessed patterns into a metal-and-shadow sculpture. The tightly tessellated pattern gradually disintegrates both in its shadow and in its form. Work includes a light in addition to the metal and fiberglass mesh sculpture.
A black and white photograph featuring an interior view of the living room in an apartment. There is a decorated Christmas tree, with string lights on, in front of a window wall. Next to the tree is a television screen emitting bright white light illuminating the room and part of the ceiling. There are three people sitting on sofas, that are placed in front of and perpendicular to the screen. Long exposure of the photograph resulted in the three people sitting on the sofas as blurry figures. A framed photograph is hanging on the brick wall behind one of the sofas. In the background, through the glass windows, a fire escape and a brick apartment building can be seen.
Untitled, from the series "Baseball" [Willie Mays], David Levinthal, Polaroid (Polacolor ER Land Film print)
Toolbox, Reverend Benjamin Franklin Perkins, acrylic on metal