entry #7. 35mm film scan on Canson Rag Photographique, archival paper. Double mounted. 5x7”, 16x24". 2021.
Installation view. entry #8 (if i can dream it, i can have it). three channel video. 11 seconds. looped. 2021. courtesy of Cook Center Process Galley. Indiana University, Bloomington. 2021.
To this end, we may consider the enduring wisdom of theorist José Esteban Muñoz, who conceptualizes queerness (for which the horizon is a metaphor) as “that thing that lets us feel that this world is not enough.” Similarly, implied by dumas o’neal’s reach towards the horizon is an admission that “this world,” perhaps partially symbolized by the shoreline from which she reaches, is not one built to sustain her, nor those she loves, thereby also nodding to the urgent need to remember and create alternative worlds, as well as sustainable modes of inhabiting them. In this regard, the artist expresses: “The environments visualized in this body of work are my offering of a sense of elsewhere.” Certainly, the installation strategy in tandem with the vastness of the scene depicted point to the existence of “elsewhere” and the presence of dumas o’neal’s hand within the endless visual plane calls the materialization of an “elsewhere” that sits beyond the constructive fist of normativity into being.
- Camille Gallogly Bacon, This Irrepressible Need to Fulfill Myself in Every Way Possible
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Installation views. This Irrepressible Need To Fulfill Myself In Every Way Possible. 35mm film scans on Canson Rag Photographique, archival paper. Double mounted. Courtesy of Cook Center Process Gallery. Indiana University, Bloomington. 2021.