The copositioning of incommensurable spatial readings within the work introduces an ambiguity that obviates closure. Doherty's works place into question a simplistic distinction of nature and artifice which would ignore the cultural production of nature qua concept. Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind. 17 Doherty's works are at once rich memory palaces with personal associations in the objects and images employed in their facture, and transcend the personal in their engagement of questions fundamental to considering of the means by which meaning is made from memory and experience, the particularity of sense perception and the universal of thought. For as John Berger has urged, Yet, unlike memory, photographs do not in themselves preserve meaning. . . .
Meaning is the result of understanding functions.
18 Works in the Exhibition Clockwise, from the gallery entrance. Dimensions in inches, H x W, framed. 27 x 25 Biographical Note Dornith Doherty is Professor of Art at University of North Texas, following thirteen years on the faculty of the Herron School of Art, Indianapolis. Doherty received the Bachelor of Arts from Rice University and the Master of Fine Arts from Yale University. Investigations in a Geneaology of Logic , trans.