End of Road #55, (2007/8) | Lightjet Print | 24" x 24"

Invoice (2007) | video still

End of Road #86 (2007/8) | Lightjet Print | 24" x 24"

End of Road #80 (2007/8) | Lightjet Print | 24" x 24"

End of Road (2007/8) | Lightjet Print | 24" x 24"

End of Road #29 (2007/8) | Lightjet Print | 24" x 24"

Adriane Little | Invoice: End of Road

Through photographs and video, Adriane Little’s visual work is presently visualized at an intersection of psychoanalysis and post-colonial theory through the lens of a feminist investigation of trauma and ritual. These ideas first presented themselves through an interrogation of a presence and absence of maternal bodies. The translation of this space is both literal and metaphor or the architecture of an ephemeral maternal space that is embedded within what she calls the matrilineal ghost. Her current work is expanding from this foundation by continuing to examine how the past or matrilineal ghost intersects with the present within technocratic cultures. Both Invoice and End of Road are examples of this new direction in the work.

While editing the video Invoice, a Google search produced the following results:  the word money appeared 659,000,000 times, war 543,000,000, culture 408,000,000, peace 192,000,000 and Freedom 184,000,000.  Six months later, the number of hits that these words produce has drastically increased.  With the origins of the Internet as a military tool, the sound from Invoice has been partly mined from the Internet and altered.  The Internet rumor for the origin of the spoken word is that it originated from a military training video.  The thrown pennies represent ritualized violence, a body count, helplessness, absurdity and consequence. 

The photographs in the series End of Road were created with a plastic holga camera and several dozen rolls of expired film.  This was a gesture filled with purpose and partly inspired by Baudrillard’s The Perfect Crime. The content in the images with End of Road become visible within the imperfections of each image.  These photographs often have portions of the image obliterated that were left as a marker for rupture and potentially places new beginnings or as Heidegger tells us that a boundary is not that at which something stops but the boundary is that from which something begins its presencing.  Invoice and End of Road are interconnected through a working definition of the matrilineal ghost in relation to this presencing.