Backwards Backwards : sdrawkcab / Peter H. Barnett

Identifier:FA.SA1.2078

Dimensions:9.25 in long x 1.6 in in diameter; 23.5 cm long x 4 cm in diameter

Creation dates:2007

Description:A scroll-like work with text printed on both sides alternating in direction. Laser printed and bound with glue. "'sdrawkcab' is the author's response to the dogmas of big bang and black hole. It is a never ending dialogue between the Siamese twins preview and review. Alternating streams of text flow both to the right and to the left, both up and down. The shape of this endless conversation is a tube, and the outside dialogue is held in place and in shape by a complementary interior dialogue. Each twin's stream of speech provides medium to the other, yet each twin turns and reacts immediately to the other's remark. Preview and review recover sdrawkcab the sense of both ways slippage which returns something from nothing, which is sustained by mutual indebtedness, and which relives that which was never lived through." -from the artist via printedmatter.org