Work · Red Dawn
The Gatekeeper
2009, color pencil on paper, 40 x 32 inches
Every threshold has something standing at it. The figure that decides who passes appears in every tradition that has imagined a door between one state and the next.
Saturated to the point of glow. The color is what does the work in this series — it lifts the figure out of documentary and into the register of a passage rather than a person.
Series: Red Dawn