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Collection Artwork
Artist
Laurel Nakadate (born Austin, Texas, 1975)
Title
Twister [from The Seven Sisters Schools]
Creation date
1995-1997
Materials
chromogenic print
Dimensions
image size: 24 x 30 in.
frame size: 25 3/8 x 31 1/8 x 1 7/8 in.
frame size: 25 3/8 x 31 1/8 x 1 7/8 in.
Credit Line
Donated in memory of Meredith S. Moody
Place of Creation
Massachusetts, United States, North America
Accession Number
2015.7
Edition
2/3
Series
Object Type
Ongoing Research
Research on our collection is ongoing. If you have resources you’d like to share, please contact Associate Curator Rebecca McNamara.
Tang Collective Catalog
Four figures contort and integrate closely on a Twister board.
It has been one month since colleges and universities across the United States have come to a halt, yet I find myself nostalgic looking at this image.
The image is from one of the Seven Sister Schools, a community of colleges.
Despite faces obscured, their intimacy remains clear. Impossible poses render the element of play central. Looking, I account my own impossible rites with my peers. The reel seems endless.
I ask: from a moment in isolation to an image of physical closeness so natural and known: how can we practice intimacy from afar?
We can do a lot when six feet becomes all too much.
On April 9, I sent a letter to my friend.
On an 8 x 11 in. sheet I placed the four by six rows in green, red, yellow, and blue.
Next, I folded the paper into segments of three. I attached a note, “left arm green."
I drew my hand on one of the spots.
A letter in an envelope one in the same as to two bodies only a heartbeat away.
It has been one month since colleges and universities across the United States have come to a halt, yet I find myself nostalgic looking at this image.
The image is from one of the Seven Sister Schools, a community of colleges.
Despite faces obscured, their intimacy remains clear. Impossible poses render the element of play central. Looking, I account my own impossible rites with my peers. The reel seems endless.
I ask: from a moment in isolation to an image of physical closeness so natural and known: how can we practice intimacy from afar?
We can do a lot when six feet becomes all too much.
On April 9, I sent a letter to my friend.
On an 8 x 11 in. sheet I placed the four by six rows in green, red, yellow, and blue.
Next, I folded the paper into segments of three. I attached a note, “left arm green."
I drew my hand on one of the spots.
A letter in an envelope one in the same as to two bodies only a heartbeat away.
Contributor
Jared Azud '20
Date
August 20, 2020
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