Rewriting on the wall 
Shown at: Art Gallery of York University, Toronto (2011) | Frith Street Gallery, London (2012) | K21, Düsseldorf (2018)

Laser-cut metal on acrylic, vinyl text
222 x 204 x 10 cm

In Rewriting On the Wall, hand-prints are reconfigured to produce an alphabet of gestures—each a gloss of the letters in standard American Sign Language as used by the deaf community. The letters add up to a text (which accompanies the work): a stammering, hesitant, syntactically unsure consideration (written by a hand that appears on the wall like the hand that wrote on the wall in the episode of Belshazzar’s feast in the Old Testament) of the relationship between ‘I’ and ‘We’ and the horizon that encompasses singular and plural modes of being.