A couple of days ago at the Four Seasons Maui I was asked to catch a lizard for a photo. This questions stirred up something deep. Back in Austria, when I was maybe eight years old, I went to a river with two friends and one of them caught a lizard, rammed a stick through its torso and put it on a little wooden raft to go down the river. It was incredibly cruel to me at the time but I got over it (or maybe not…). Now, 22 years later and thousands of miles detached, upon that question the event popped back into my mind and I felt horribly wrong even scaring a lizard. I couldn’t stop thinking about that lizard since and played with all kinds of drawings of lizards until this ended up on the wall of my hotel room at the Four Seasons Lanai… I should install a camera to get the expression on the maid’s face upon entering the room…

paper on wall, scotch tape
216″ x 85″

“Mirror Mirror”
chromogenic prints on mirror at Four Seasons Maui
62″ x 40″

“Mirror Mirror on the wall, who am I and what am I doing here…”

I guess I just combined my “Straight from the Minibar” series and my work with Negative Stability. This took about an hour and seemed impossible for most of that hour. Stood for a good 15 seconds.

I met this guy at the Ritz-Carlton.