This picture shows the top of one of the four light boxes, notice the etched doilly on the surface of the glass and the red slides in the rack.

Witness Marks is an installation that is as much about process as it is about the elements employed in the finished work. It is a result of several years studio work and experimentation investigating and subverting notions of the multiple and the series. The resulting installation is a work that cues the viewer to the idea of the edition and then challenges the viewer by presenting notions of difference and segmented narrative in series. It employs both museological and medical motif in the use of identical light boxes and glass slides. I have also used the circle and elements of the book as vehicles to express ideas of illumination. Witness Marks is a metaphor that examines the idea of individual difference through the vehicle of the female body. I have used the print process as a signifier of multiplicity and stereotypic norms while soliciting ideas of uniqueness and difference.
Xu Bing states:
I have created many works to do with shu (books), but I am particularly wary of having to explain them. This is because I believe that if a work can be explained with words, Then there can be no reason for it to exist.(Goodman, 2000, p48)
Like Xu I have used books as a basis for some of my investigation and also like Xu I am convinced that words are not adequate to fully explain my intent. This also is a paradox.

This is a close-up of the yellow slides, you can see the etching on the surface of the glass.