The Concealed Person by Jonathan Bruce Williams, 2025, programmable LED lightbox
The Concealed Person by Jonathan Bruce Williams, 2025, programmable LED lightbox
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"The Concealed Person" borrows its title from Susanna Clarke's 2020 novel Piranesi, a parable of isolation and fragile hope that resonated at the onset of COVID-19. In the artwork, a collapsed body has become the ground for a garden of daffodils, like those observed throughout New York City in the spring of 2025. Their appearance recalled the spring of 2021, when familiar flowers were seen as if for the first time.

From Let's All Abandon Reality Together, Kai Matsumiya, New York, 2025.
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The Concealed Person

49.7 × 109.6 × 10.5 cm

2025