The Distance From Here · Data print
Unique giclée print · 17 × 17 inches · Framed · 1/1
Print details · $500.00
The work
A damaged silver car crowds the left side of the square. Its open door, sharply defined by a black interior, extends toward a broad pale blue field. Ochre and burgundy marks trail into that space, while dark diagonals and drips pull beneath the vehicle.
A 26-year-old passenger died after being thrown from a BMW in a crash on Goethals Road North. The separation between vehicle and open field carries the work’s emotional pressure. The door becomes a threshold, holding attention between the car’s dense presence and the expanse beside it.
2024-03-11
Goethals Road North
Crash record 4709276 · Read the source record ↗
Painting, data, selection
The series begins with Freedman’s four oil paintings: 258 Feet from Here, 1,104 Feet from Here, 1,924 Feet from Here, and 3,504 Feet from Here. Each responds to a fatal crash near littlefield in Brooklyn, establishing a language of interrupted gestures, partial forms, color, and open space.
For each data print, another documented crash acts on that painted language: direction, movement, and relationships between people and vehicles shape the composition. Freedman uses AI in the studio to develop these translations, then vets and selects the works. From roughly 1,200 images, only a few become physical prints. Each holds one event in view, asking for sustained attention to an individual loss within the city’s larger record.
The physical work
Printed edge-to-edge at 17 × 17 inches, each giclée uses Epson pigment inks on Hahnemühle German Etching paper. The textured matte surface carries brilliant color, subtle tonal shifts, and fine detail.
Presented in a black frame with a 13/16-inch face, a 2-inch white mat and a ¼-inch silver inner mat, under non-reflective acrylic. The mat covers ⅛ inch on each edge of the image.
Each image is a unique print, numbered 1/1. No second print of this specific image will be made.
Collect the print
17 × 17 inches · Hahnemühle German Etching · Edge-to-edge · Framed
Edition of one · 1/1
$500.00 USD
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