Jay Heikes Candle 2002
City Pages profiles one of Minneapolis’ participants in the 2006 Whitney Biennial, Jay Heikes. Of his piece Candle, a table draped with abstracted band logos cut out of fabric, he says:
“I didn’t really like death metal, but I love the fact that the bands make their logos unreadable. It’s such a great subversive gesture. The only legible thing on death metal concert posters is the space between each logo. I remember doing a big paper cutout and having no idea who the band was. Then, a few years later, I looked at it, and was like, Oooh. Finally, I was able to read it. It turned out that I’d been looking at it backwards.”
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