When I began to paint Leona Helmsley, a few years before her trial, I was interested in the tradition of the painted icon. I was interested in Helmsley as a social icon, as a metaphor for power and success/excess. Filming the trial in NY Federal Court with a Super 8 camera brought additional considerations. When I attended the trial, I had the notion that I would be a neutral observer, anonymous and unobserved. Instead I found I couldn’t look without being looked at. I discovered that at times that when I pointed my camera, other photographers followed my lead. When I saw that I appeared behind my camera in footage on the evening news. I became interested in working with these images to emphasize my relationship to this event both as a spectator and participant. Artwork in the exhibition included paintings with video and projected film, animations with sound, lithographs, text and digital prints