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DESCRIPTION
Edison's Apparition combines elements of painting, sculpture and architecture into a screen wall hovering between pictorial and planar space. Recalling Thomas Alva Edison's earliest experiments in recorded sound (wax cylinder, liquid mercury, disk and turntable, gramophone horn), the sculpture is fabricated from cut and pinned sheet steel, set within a three-inch-thick steel frame suspended from two vertical steel tubes.
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On either side of the frame, two sheets of translucent glass transform the construction into a monochromatic shadow box, within which the steel shapes seem to float like ghostly shadows. The various paraphernalia trace the progression of aural media into the era of the 78s -- an evolution, as the sculpture's context suggests, that continues through the latter half of the twentieth century with vinyl and tape giving way to DAT, CD and MP3. The dematerialized yet still visible forms of these apparatuses evokes the sensation that, with the preservation of sound and the ability to transport it across time and space, sound too now has a memory.
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