House of Children

In 2003, I was invited by Leon Golub to participate in the first International Artist Museum exhibition in Lodz, Poland. The only stipulation to participating was that a new work had to be made to respond to the site, a former factory. During World War II, Lodz was a main location for Jews and other undesirables before transport to camps. I discovered decaying buildings of former orphanages; in Polish, the direct translation of orphanage is House Of Children.

The exhibition consists of a suite of enlarged glass sheets, each 38” x 15” x 7/8” were suspended between which were several of my photographs printed on acetate of sleeping children. The space was approximately 1800 square feet. Each suspended glass module was lighted directly from above with a halogen light. Shadows were cast directly on the floor below each image onto a bed of salt on the floor. Ample space was available in the installation for viewers to walk through the work, slowly moving air and images in glass as the shadows rocked slowly.