Porn, 1996, Cactus Print, plexiglass, computer disks, laser-printed labels, size variable.

Making the supposedly obscene beautiful, and visually seductive, this piece takes a binary file (the way much “adult” material was transmitted across the Internet during the 1990’s) of a piece of “pornography” downloaded from the Internet, and re-presents it as a quasi-craftlike image, reminiscent of an electronic quilt. The large element uses Cactus printing, an electrostatic color printing process. This framed digital image is then placed next to a locked transparent plexiglass box containing computer discs with the binary file of the smutty image on each. An appropriate software translator still needs to be identified and used before the recipient may view the image. These discs are available for purchase (tying into the highly commercialized aspect of pornography) for $50, for those proving that they are over 21, with an ID. The label on each disc contains the Supreme Court’s definition of obscenity, in an abbreviated form.