Images Above:
David Melrose, Self Examination as a Chance Operation, 2009, Selection from 20 Inkjet
prints, 8 x 10 Inches each, Courtesy of the Artist.
“The law of chance, which embraces all other laws and is as unfathomable to us as the depths from which all life arises, can only be comprehended by complete surrender to the Unconscious. Maintain that whoever submits to the law attains perfect life.” – Hans Arp
This is a selection of photographs.
They were taken randomly.
My phone made them.
The images are of my finger.
They are transcendent.
David Melrose lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. His new pictures connect historically to Hans Arp (collage), John Cage (composition), and Brian Eno (oblique strategies). Melrose’s work has been included in exhibitions at the East Islip Museum of Art, New York, the Fort Collins MOCA, Colorado, the Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York and most recently in Implant at the UBS Art Gallery, New York. His work has been reviewed in The New York Times, the New Yorker, Wallpaper and L Magazine amongst others. Melrose is the founder of 2100built, a sustainable design/build group.