Float
Wasow has a long-standing fascination with science fiction, apocalyptic fantasies, and documentation of unidentified flying objects. In his many pictures of mysterious floating disks and orbs, the artist courts doubt by running found images through a battery of processes, including drawing, photocopying, and superimposition, to create distortions. The resulting photographs play with the human propensity to invest form with meaning, offering just enough detail to spur the imagination.
Artwork Details
- Title: Float
- Artist: Oliver Wasow (American, born 1960)
- Date: 1984–2008, printed 2009
- Medium: Inkjet prints
- Dimensions: Frame: 17.3 x 22.3 cm (6 13/16 x 8 3/4 in.)
Overall: 116.8 x 152.4 cm (46 x 60 in.) - Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Purchase, Vital Projects Fund Inc. Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2010
- Object Number: 2010.15a–t
- Rights and Reproduction: © Oliver Wasow
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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