Hard Return
Video, steel, electronics
60 x 384 x 24 in
152 x 957 x 61 cm
2004
Richard Humann • Hard Return • Video, steel, electronics • 60 x 384 x 24 in • 2004
Hard Return is a kinetic sculpture that traverses a 30-foot long distance of the gallery. A video projector is mounted to an automated device that propels it back and forth along a metal track, mimicking the return mechanism of an old-fashioned typewriter. The video that is projected shows a close-up of a typewriter striking words onto the gallery wall. The letters that are being typed are running in reverse, thus deleting the message of the work. The message is a self-affirmation and awareness written in poetic verse of the time restraints of life. The full message begins with “Twelve words, I am moving quickly towards the end of what is called me” and throughout the process of the kinetic movement and video projection it is reduced down to simply the words and proclamation “One word, I”.
Richard Humann • Hard Return • Video, steel, electronics • 60 x 384 x 24 in • 2004
Richard Humann • Hard Return • Video, steel, electronics • 60 x 384 x 24 in • 2004
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Text for ‘Hard Return’:
Twelve words
I am moving quickly towards the end of what is called me
Eleven words
I am moving quickly towards the end of what is called
Ten words
I am moving quickly towards the end of what is
Nine words
I am moving quickly towards the end of what
Eight words
I am moving quickly towards the end of
Seven words
I am moving quickly towards the end
Six words
I am moving quickly towards the
Five words
I am moving quickly towards
Four words
I am moving quickly
Three words
I am moving
Two words
I am
One word
I
Photo credits: J.B. Grant / Richard Humann Studio