No Heroic Measures

6/49 6/49
paperback book
4.25" × 6.875", 101 pages, edition of 49
This volume comprises a series of forty-nine sigils derived from randomly generated lottery numbers and Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa’s magic square for the planet Venus, as published in his De occulta philosophia libri tres (Three Books on Occult Philosophy, ca. 1510).

It was completed on the occasion of the January 24, 2009 Lotto 6/49 draw (jackpot: C$44.4 million). I did not win.

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Ooo-ooo, Ooo-ooo Ooo-ooo, Ooo-ooo
color photograph, glass, and mirror
12" × 8" each
hung at the artist's eye level
Plea for Intercession (Is It My Goal? Is It Your Goal?) Plea for Intercession (Is It My Goal? Is It Your Goal?)
Oil and gold leaf on linen
18" × 24" each
portraits of Aaliyah (left) and Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes (right)
Happy Birthday! (Self-portrait at 23) Happy Birthday! (Self-portrait at 23)
mulberry paper, yarn, and glue
dimensions variable
Blanket, to Blanket Blanket, to Blanket
crocheted cotton granny-square afghan, chalk ground
platform is 4' × 6'
Blanket Blanket
graphite on paper
4' × 6'
full-scale stitch diagram of the crocheted afghan in Blanket, to Blanket