Being, nothing more…

2017

CNC milled foam, plastic, pearlescent auto finish, rock

H 24” x L 36” x D 24”

Being, nothing more… is an attempt to simplify and define existence as a specific and limited amount of calculable space. The boulder is an homage to Jean-Paul Sartre’s Being and Nothingness. The form was created by using CNC technology to mill a 3D scan of a rock to the exact volume of the artist’s body, found to be 5,616.188 cubic inches using air displacement plethysmography, at age 38. The video footage was captured during a Sisyphean performance in Tokyo, Japan in 2018.

“The world is human. We can see the very particular position of consciousness: being is everywhere, opposite me, around me; it weighs down on me, it besieges me, and I am perpetually referred from being to being; that table which is there is being and nothing more; that rock, that tree, that landscape—being and nothing else. I want to grasp this being and I no longer find anything but myself.”

- Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness