The idea was that sometimes I got the feeling that I was being played by somebody, unseen. I always like playing chess. So certainly when I thought of "being played" I saw that with a chessboard. Then I decided to make a chessboard for myself, a big one so that I could actually be playing on it.
It looked like a boring process of making the board: pasting thousands little pieces of masking tape to hold the small pieces of paper together didn't look like fun. An artist friend of mine poked her head into my studio and said: "You always do labor work, Gnocchi!" And I said: "Yeah, well, you know, so that I don't have to think." And it's true.
This piece has been exhibited in Dorothy Uber Bryan Gallery, Ohio, USA, 2004. |
