Jonah, from the series, Heart In The Age of Mechanical Reproduction Photograph - Limited Edition of 1

This piece consists of 15 individually mounted and framed 20" x 30" photographs. By making copies of copies, a moving target emerges: the relationship of an original to its iterations. Through photographs of the installations of the same NYC subway poster ad for the film 21 Jump Street (among others), I explore the path of authenticity as it is empowered by the unique markings of the installer, the occasional graffiti artist and the available light. From Jonah Hill, the private person, to Jonah Hill the public figure, to a single performance, to the various iterations of the promotion of the former, the course of aura is more of transformation than it is of decay. The viewer of the installation (of all 15 images in this case) is thus confronted with the un-disseminated parts of a whole and a new original. The democratizing, dialectic of multiples, yielding to space (context) and time (change), liberates not only the subject from its author but its perception from limited interpretation.