Lisa Young


Transcendent Machine (detail). 2002. Detail.
A series of digital prints documents fans releasing toilet paper skyward during a recent tickertape parade, and then follows the sections of paper as they drift slowly across the sky.


Transcendent Machine


Transcendence (Puffy). 2002. 6 page accordion fold-out project for Cabinet Magazine (Issue no. 6, Spring 2002). 4 1/2” x 37 3/4” (open).
Sections of toilet paper were photographed while floating in mid-air. Some of the shapes resembled letters of the alphabet. A selection of these shapes spelled a word: "puffy".