blackbird online journal spring 2002 vol.1 no. 1

 

RICHARD ROTH | Collecting Myself

Paper Shooting Targets consists of paper targets for rifles and pistols. In the entire history of graphic design, targets are perhaps the most fundamental and simplistic typologies: they are two-dimensional structures dedicated to a single point. Target shooting, whether a practical exercise in perception and skill, or a sport in itself (however clean, methodical, and technological) is always about power, blood, and death. At the center of a target is a bull's-eye. Targets are visually striking—they are also loaded.

This collection mimics the history of art and its transition from realism to abstraction.

 
   
 
   
 

 Richard Roth, Paper Shooting Targets, 1994-present, detail, 80 framed targets,
 individual sizes vary, overall dimensions variable .