Kay Rosen
Open, Orb, Orifice, Donut, Globe, Hole, Whole, Halo, Zero, 1999
The edition entitled “Open, Orb, Orifice, Donut, Globe, Hole, Whole, Halo, Zero” from 1999, plays with language as a rendez-vous of poetic imagery and performative act. A simple letter O is painted here directly onto the wall as a fluorescent orange circle by means of a stencil. The O shifts from ornament to semantic carrier through its title that strings together nine terms, each containing the letter O, that can all be represented with the shape of a circle. Through the act of speaking the oral richness of the vowel O is being expressed and the text turns into an event.
Kay Rosen
Open, Orb, Orifice, Donut, Globe, Hole, Whole, Halo, Zero, 1999
“O” vinyl stencil, Futura Bold
Fluorescent color, bright orange
Diameter: 30,5 cm
Signed, dated and numbered certificate
Edition of each word 10