Beverly Ahern & I chose to collaboratively curate each other’s Polaroid images of recent and past years. These personal Polaroids – in a variety of formats – are arranged in relation to a Polaroid taken of a computer screen glowing with text. The wording on the screen is excerpted from the narrative script to a short film created in 1971 by Charles and Ray Eames (commissioned by Edwin Land for the Polaroid stockholders as “the first tease of the SX-70 system”). This suite of work intends to nod at current and future state of non-tactile image viewing, while at the same time reflecting on the presence that Polaroid images once occupied in our life.

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THIS IS ROBBIE, from Excerpts suite, Polaroids, 11" x 14", 2009/2009.


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VERBS (Sisyphus Envy), from Excerpts suite, Polaroids, 11" x 14", 2008/2009/2009.


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HUMAN REALITY IS MORE INTRICATE THAN EITHER ONE, from Excerpts suite, Polaroids, 11" x 14", 2009/2009/2009.


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THE USER IS THE FINAL LINK, from Excerpts suite, Polaroids, 11" x 14", 2003/2009/2003.


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THE FLOOD OF IMAGES THAT MAKE UP SO MUCH OF HUMAN LIFE, from Excerpts suite, Polaroids, 14" x 11", 2009/2005.


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THE VIEWER CAN SEE THEM MATERIALIZE, from Excerpts suite, Polaroids, 11" x 14", 2007/2009.


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GIVE OR TAKE EIGHT YEARS, from Excerpts suite, Polaroids, 11" x 14", 2005/2009/2009.


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Polaroids of Annie, from Excerpts, video, 2009.
Video by Beverly Ahern
Music by Robert Heishman
Interview with Mike Erickson