Leukos, 2005 Stills from video. 13:47 minutes, color, sound. Installation: canvas, graphite, charcoals, crayons, artist's body, projected video. Courtesy Lehman College Art Gallery, New York.
Leukos, 2005 Stills from video. 13:47 minutes, color, sound
Installation: canvas, graphite, charcoals, crayons, artist's body, projected video
Courtesy Lehman College Art Gallery, New York
Leukos in Greek means "daylight," more specifically "early morning light"
"Leukos" belongs to the series of installations and video works entitled "Intervals," which are drawing spaces open to contingency -
of the encounter with others who are invited to inhabit the space of drawing with the artist, and of effects of the natural environment
such as rain and wind. In this series of works, the artist mounts a video camera near the scene of the action, usually from an elevated
viewpoint, which acts as an extension of her eye, allowing Weiss to be both inside of the work and to document it at the same time.
Later this footage becomes material for a video projection.
During two days of the ephemeral outdoor installation that was installed on the Lehman College campus, the artist covered a section of
the grass quadrangle with a large-scale sheet of white canvas. Weiss sewed the canvas sections with assistance from the college students.
On both days of the installation, the artist laid on the ground within the space of the canvas. For several hours on each day she
continued drawing around her body, traveling quietly through the white landscape, which gradually became darker as the drawn lines of
black and brown crayons marked its surface. Day one was full of sunlight that embraced the scene. Several groups of students joined
the artist inside her drawing and some lay on the ground and drew around their silhouettes. On the second day heavy rain and wind
accompanied Weiss' drawing action, contributing to the darkening and water-like quality of the accumulating drawn marks. When preparing
for this project the artist was hoping for the dramatic weather changes, which often occur this time of the year.
