Japhyotype - Portraits and Views 1824-1928

Reedy Creek Station or Overpriced Ashtray (2003, Digital Print, Size Various)

Japhy Grant was a man deeply troubled by the Russian Revolution. While this work seemingly reflects those concerns, they, in fact, do not.

Girl on Train and Stranger (2002, Digital Print, 32"x30")

The earliest work in our collection, it was saved fom near destruction at the hands of our initial curator, Joshua Rorosian, who, after a three day cocaine binge, tried to set the piece- and himself- on fire.

Laundrymat (2002, Digital C=Print 8"x10")

For over thirty years, Japhy had his laundry taken care of by his mother. When she finally passed on (or rather, faked her death. Evidence suggests that she moved west and changed her name to Georgia to avoid her tyrannical son) Japhy went to the laundry for the first time by himself. The moment changed his life and this photo was the result. "Next to my circumcision, enetering that laundrymat was the most defining moment of my life", Japhy was known to say to socialites who would invite him to formal dinners.

The Election Pary Invitation (2000, Digital Image, Size various)

Created for a party thrown in honor of his estranged second cousin Ulysses, Japhy's 1868 invitation is nothing if not unduly prescient.

Master Opacity #1 (2003, Digital Canvas Print, Size Various)


Master Opacity #2 (2003, Digital Canvas Print, Size Various)

"We always knew his habit of pouring mercury on his skin and watching it absorb in to his skin was dangerous to his mental health, but it was not until he exhibited his Master Opacity Series at the Tokyo Exposition of 1917 that we realized just how dangerous it really was."
- Mme. Mansita Ventadorn, Au pair to Japhy's nephew Fritz Ferdinand

Furniture Warehouse (2002, Digital C-Print 8"x10")

While lying on his deathbed in Palm Springs, devastated by the loss of his investemts in Cheekie-O's, which like most stocks , had become worthless on Black Tuesday, the ailing Japhy Grant said this about the above work, " If only there wasn't a damn tree in front of that building! Then I could read what those signs are saying! Won't somebody read to me? Anyone? So lonely!"

Foot Locker Tower (2002, Digital C-Print 8"x10")

Is it a bird, is it a plane or is it man's never ending quest to build ever larger and higher phallus' onto the landscape? Found on the reverse of the original, the following couplet was found scrawled, its author unknown:

"Oh cindered column of sunlight strapped hue
Let me take you in my mouth and there, suck on you."