Shifting sands

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This week's opinion essay by Gabrielle Selz was inspired by the current exhibition at the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, "Sand: Memory, Meaning and Metaphor." Here, she comments (in italics) on works from the show about how artists reflect on and make use of sand in their work. To learn more, go here.       August 17, 2008
   
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Mariko Mori (Japanese, born 1964) Empty Dream, 1995

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Mariko Mori (Japanese, born 1964)
Empty Dream, 1995
Six color photographs

It's empty because it's not a real beach, but only a simularcrum of a beach, an indoor tropical paradise in Miyazaki, Japan, where landlocked vacationers go to experience a day at the ocean. It's further removed from reality, because it's only a photograph of a fake beach. Mori is the star of her own dreamscape, the mermaid seen splashing in the water and on the shore.

(Collection of Jerome and Ellen Stern, New York)

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