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Recursion
Surely every soigné child of the 70’s recalls a moment when they first noticed the label on Mother’s bottle of Dubonnet. For many of us that was a moment of pure wonderment. As the label had a picture of a cat resting by a Dubonnet bottle, with a label, on which there was a picture of a cat resting by a Dubonnet bottle, and so it went ever inward. Of course we knew that the printed design on the bottle of an aperitif could only take us so far, but like Alice falling down the rabbit hole our minds spun with the idea of eternal cats and unending bottles. Today if ever the act of recursion is ever described to me by mathematicians, my mind will wander instead to 1970’s Dubonnet bottles.
Here with Christine’s photograph it is possible to imagine an eternity of people turning photographs of other people, looking at art, into… art. I feel the same delight that I felt with the cats and bottles. Perhaps there was another photographer who stood behind Christine and included her in the frame, and someone else behind them, and on and on until at the very end… there’s someone enjoying an aperitif.
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