Sight and Light,

1980

In a series started in the 1970s, Gordon explores the interplay of text and image by visually connecting elements of a found half-tone photograph featuring an "everyman" wearing a shirt and tie with definitions found in Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged. Words, definitions, and diagrams flow from and orbit around the visionless man’s head, forming a graphic solar system of concentric crescent forms. This celestial stream of conscious ruminates on the act of looking, the nature of color, and the phases of the moon, even correlating the opening of an eye with the aperture for the lens of a camera.