Duchamp’s Given: 1. The Waterfall, 2. The Illuminating Gas is a meticulously staged tableau that collapses sculpture, painting, photography, and voyeurism into a single charged encounter.

Its peephole construction turns looking into a controlled operation, directing the viewer’s position and attention with precision.

The waterfall, the illuminated interior, and the reclining figure function as elements of a visual apparatus that offers detail while withholding narrative coherence.

My work, Given the Waterfall, draws on this logic of constructed viewing, not to echo Duchamp’s scene, but to examine how framing, distance, and selective visibility shape the conditions under which an image can be approached.