Celeritas, 2009, was created specifically for this group show at Murray Guy Gallery in New York. The words are are screened onto a chalkboard with doors, with two blank spaces to be filled in with numbers denoting how long the light source illuminating the board took to reach the surface. Each edition of 5 shows accurate calculations for the amount of time light has travelled. The editions that are illuminated by natural light are closed when the sun goes down to prevent the statements from becoming false. This work provides an interesting commentary on the labor of the viewer, and all moments (or non-human labor) culminating into the viewers experience of the work. Each piece documents a moment in space emitting light, and the amount of time and space that light has to travel to reach the board. The viewer's eyes and brain then go through the labor of processing that light into a coherent message. This piece forces the viewer into contemplation, or mental labor, of the nature of the source of light as well as the viewers own perception on the receiving end of that light.
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