Axiom of Choice (2003)

Evoking the physiognomy of a Rembrandt portrait Axiom of Choice depicts Jonas Mekas and his son Sebastian their heads rotating in radiant chiaroscuro against a black ground With Mekas at its center the references to cinematic machinery abound in this work from the protofilmic zoetrope which used a spinning cylinder to create the illusion of a moving image to the flickering zoom of Ernie Gehrs film Serene Velocity to the enormous gyrating machine at the center of Michael Snows La Région Centrale Richard Birkett Karin Schneider Nicolás Guagnini