Pippin's signature work, Laundromat/Locomotion, was a landmark masterpiece that succeeded in drawing the medium of Photography (with a capital P) back to photographic technique by revisiting historical moments from the birth of photography through the course of its development and placing himself in the photographs. Although his early work for which he used a pinhole camera has a kind of “peeping with a hidden camera” atmosphere, his perspective is not dissimilar to monitoring, management and networking of information on a global scale. What Black Hole, sculpted from invisible forces (gravitational and centrifugal forces, electrical waves and light), shows us are miniature drawings of these horrifying circumstances. In contrast, Ω =1 presents a clear and simple form of resistance against this invisible force.
Steven Pippin, Black Hole, 2002 ©Mr, Pippin
