Guest 3:43 p.m. 25 August 2000

Signed and dated on verso (unique)

Christopher Bucklow’s “Guest” series, which began in 1993, features radiant silhouettes of human figures created using a unique photogram technique. Bucklow crafts large pinhole cameras with up to 25,000 tiny apertures, traces the shadow-silhouette of his models onto aluminum foil, and exposes photosensitive paper to sunlight through these punctures. The resulting images consist of thousands of miniature suns forming a luminous human shape. The use of 25,000 pinholes symbolizes a lifespan of seventy years, with each sun representing a day. His work delves into themes of existence, consciousness, and the relationship between the tangible and symbolic, influenced by ideas like neoteny and cultural evolution.