Dunning's large photographic transparency is dedicated to his mother, a translator. Through pixelation and other digital processes, he manipulated an illuminated page from a tenth-century manuscript that she had translated, until the image came to resemble an enormous stain that evokes the flux of electronic media. Its transformation suggests the fluidity and fragility of cultural information and memory. Suspended in the middle of the room, the transparency seems poised between author and reader.
