Undoing consists of a set of seven folded facsimile drawings and seven back-to-back photographs interlaced between them. The basic unit is a sheet folded in quarters, each quarter on either side containing a freehand drawing of a variation on the theme of repetitve, mutual encirclement. Each of these quarters is again folded in quarters, and a large number of new designs can be made by distinct sequences in the folding. The interactive interactive reader is encouraged to refold and rearrange the contents of the book.
The seven folded facsimile drawings represent fundamental dispositions of undoing: engulfment, withdrawal, interpenetration, collision, entrapment, backwards-backwards and departure. The seven group photographs represent transitions among the seven basic dispositions. The title page, printed on a transparency, redefines “undoing” as a participle, as a noun, and as a folded drawing. –Artist’s Statement