The set is composed of three elements: a wall structure, Irving Penn, a photograph, Performing 4'33" by John Cage, and a video, Untitled (Nixon / HAL). The video, a recitation of two texts describing death in empty space, is to be screened in a room adjacent to the installation of the walls and the photograph.

Irving Penn 
Frontal view and corner detail: Two 8' x 8' drywall and 2" x 4" walls, laser print on 8 1/2" by 11" bond paper
Positioned at eye level at the interior point of the wedge is a text page printed in ten-point Helvetica lettering. A viewer can see the page from outside of the structure, but must enter the corner to read the text. The text reads:

Sometime in 1998 I began photographing portraits in a small corner space made of two studio flats pushed together. A very rich series of pictures resulted.

This confinement, surprisingly, seemed to comfort people, soothing them. The walls were a surface to lean on or push against. For me the picture possibilities were interesting; limiting the subjects' movement seemed to relieve me of part of the problem of holding on to them.

Performing 4'33" by John Cage