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title: repetition and variables (at the sheppard fine arts gallery, reno, nevada) installation view facing southwest
size: installation size: 456"(l) x 432"(w) x 144(h) (gallery dimensions)
large photographs (blades of grass): 10"(l) x 4"(w) x 3"(d)
medium photographs (steel and paper objects): 5"(l) x 4"(w) x 2 ½"(d)
small photographs (leaves): 2"(l) x 2"(w) x 1/8"(d)
hanging objects: sizes vary from 3" to 12"(h) x 1" to 5"(diameter)
medium: large and medium photographs: photographs, plexi-glass, and alloy fasteners; small photographs: photographs, steel and glass slide mount frames; hanging objects: steel and paper; photo light with umbrella
more info: this installation represents a collaboration between dean burton and tamara scronce where individually developed ideas meet and become intertwined. objects become images, and images become objects.

central to the work are ideas of nature opposed to manmade; a search for harmony between the two produces strange by-products. contradictions are the rule - not the exception: machined/manmade, masculine/feminine, binary/analog, artifice/authenticity, order/chance, mundane/unique…