Non Covalent

Heather Sparks

Non Covalent

March 17 – April 15, 2000

Reception: Friday, March 17th, 2000, 6:00 - 8:00pm

Heather Sparks scans details of her own body, hair or skin, and digitally prints them onto large strips of laminated vellum. The resulting mutation of flesh into fetishistic abstraction transcend basis in fact, and adds to the deception of the photographic lens.  The use of technology in Sparks’ work is not simply the literal process she employs to produce her sculptures, it is the encapsulation of her working rationale: that of visually manipulating the aesthetic body in a very personal way. In Non Covalent Sparks enlarges microscopic details of her body to transform her “real” self into an unidentifiable series of images, thus she is, essentially, playing with herself, and with social conventions of thought processes and categorizations.  Her works are also investigations into technology with an exploratory working method, and an inquisition into “what will come out on the other side.”