Landon Ross
Untitled Hieroglyph, 2016
Landon Ross (1982)
Untitled Hieroglyph, 2016
Steel, composite, Optium acrylic, Plexiglass, aluminum, porcelain, foil, chalk, slipcase
160 x 299.7 x 101.6 cm
Through his engagement with a spectrum of fields of knowledge, Landon Ross considers how we imagine and connect to the cosmos His Untitled Hieroglyphics series consists of chalkboards taken from universities, in which professors in different fields have worked on their research over time and then recouped by the artist. Impossible to decode for most without expertise in the respective scientific fields, they act as modern hieroglyphs: visual languages that speak not through clarity but through their resistance to easy interpretation. Instead of illustrating meaning, they record the attempt to find it—a drawing of thought processes that reflect how we, as humans, search for meaning and origin.