Preface Admission Works "untitled" "The Scream" "Orphan" "Die Falle (The Trap)" "Two Step" "No, Never Alone" "Cake Walk" "Forty" "Mother May I" "Putti" "Dipping Digits (Always Gets Wet)" "Coprophagia" "Fan: Self Portrait" "Phone Pit" "Narsisyphus" [ICC Collection ] "Juggler" Participation Artist's Related Events Gallery Talk Lecture Lecture Catalog
		July 28 (Friday) - September 10 (Sunday), 2000 [Finished] Gallery A, D
		Works "Putti" 1991 acrylic paint, urethane foam, steel cable, motor, strobe light 72 X 216 inches diameter Courtesy: Collection of San Jose Museum of Art; Museum purchase with funds from the Council of 100 IOne evening sitting on his roof, Barsamian saw helicopters taking off and landing at a heliport. The artist says that the figures of the helicopters looked like bees or angels guarding the city from the sky. The actual work introduces a double meaning that is impossible to limit to one. Depending on whether the angel transforms into the helicopter or the helicopter transforms into the angel, "Putti" alludes to the idea of "a watching police state" or "a city's guardian angel." Just like the ambiguity of a meaning of a dream, there is perhaps no single correct interpretation of this work.