Jennifer Steinkamp
Untitled
1993A river of light cut across the floor of the gallery. The water imagery seemed to breathe as it traversed between concave and convex — destabilizing the viewer’s relationship to the normally solid architecture; some actually felt seasick.
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If this isn’t quite the ur-Kraken of illustration history, it’s one of them, reproduced countless times when sea monster depictions are required. The source is Histoire naturelle, générale et particuliere, des mollusques, animaux sans vertèbres et a sang blanc (1802) by Felix de Roissy, some of whose other illustrations are in this Flickr set from the Biodiversity Heritage Library