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1969 Gallery presents Blind Field, including works by Matt Bollinger, David Byrd,
Gareth Cadwallader, Ginny Casey, Aubrey Levinthal, Enrico Riley and Brandi Twilley.

In Camera Lucida, Roland Barthes mentions something called the blind field. This term refers to the suspension I experience when someone in a film walks off frame and I think they still move in a room or wherever, specifically the continuation of the fictional space projected before me, as opposed to a sound stage somewhere. The idea has lingered in my head for more than 15 years since I first read it and has morphed a bit to make …