Untitled,

1992

<em>Untitled</em> is a unique color positive print, created without camera or negative by the direct action of a moving beam of light on printing paper. In a darkened room, Fuss laid down the large sheet face-up, then set in motion a flashlight hanging ­suspended, pendulum-like, above it. The swinging light described an inward spiral, spending momentum with each orbit until it reached stasis at the center of the sheet. When one confronts the image on a wall, the great glowing vortex exerts a vertiginous tug on one’s body while recalling radio-telescope representations of distant nebulae or the tunnel of light that is said to be encountered by those on the threshold of the afterlife.