Less about transitions and more about the idea of a hallowed space, James Johnson’s peephole environment is one part Duchamp’s “Etante donnes” and all parts “Fountain.” The witty work looks like a tall, white-painted pedestal from the outside, and inside, a video plays a loop of a beloved campus fountain it’s water gushing quietly and steadily in the cloistered interior courtyard of Thomas Great Hall. There’s something so still and awe-filled about this piece that it becomes like a religious relic, a piece of the college forever saved in a memory box.
