Front view
Inv. No.S-0428
ArtistTodd Wattsborn 1949
Title

"The Left Side"

Year1973, vintage
Medium

gelatin silver print mounted on cardboard

Dimensions100 x 70 cm
Edition5/11
Signature

signed (pencil) on recto; titled, dated, numbered (pencil) and copyright-stamp on mount verso

Comment

By pressing his left hand in a bucket filled with warm tar, Todd Watts de facto makes an imprint of his hand, a concave form. The spectator can read the imprint in a concave or a convex way; a dual-aspect picture that created itself without and manipulation by the artist.
Fritz Simak.

S-0428, "The Left Side"
Todd Watts, "The Left Side", 1973
S-0428, Front view
© Todd Watts
S-0428, Back view
Todd Watts, "The Left Side", 1973
S-0428, Back view
S-0428,
Todd Watts, "The Left Side", 1973
S-0428
S-0428, Vgl. Ernst Haas, 1970, Sammlung Simak 0045
Todd Watts, "The Left Side", 1973
S-0428, Vgl. Ernst Haas, 1970, Sammlung Simak 0045