Gnocchi Artyst is an installation artist who live in Toronto, Canada.

 

 

IN THE ATTEMPT TO GET RID OF MY SHADOW

Part of In & Out series
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t studio in Bowling Green , Ohio, USA, 2004

 
 

I thought of doing something without being affected by my physical existence.

If I hammer a nail into the wall, it will most likely be at the same height as mine. Then if I stand on a chair and hammer the nail, the height that I can reach will be just an extension of my height. So it seems that everything I do ultimately relates to my physical being. Is there any way that I could escape from it?

I picked a piece of wood, and five nails, and I asked myself to do a simple thing: hammer the nails into the piece of wood, but in a way that should NOT be "my way."

I didn't succeed.

I still don't know how.

People often wonder how one can be oneself.
I wonder how I can for once NOT be myself.

 

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