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Samantha Scherer (Return to Scherer's Main Page)
These Are Their Stories
Showing July 5 - August 2, 2008
These Are Their Stories is about compulsion and the impulse to collect. It also examines the fascination with pain and death, on both a personal and cultural level, and the media’s role in feeding this fascination. For years, I have been a reluctant fan of the television show Law and Order. Attracted by its focus on morbid crimes, I am almost powerless to ignore the endless reruns on cable and often find myself watching episodes that I may have already seen more than once. This has amounted to hours and hours of seeing vaguely recognizable character actors assaulted and murdered on a regular basis. In an effort to both acknowledge and control this behavior, I decided to create a visual catalog of these fictional victims in the hopes that deliberate viewing and deconstruction of the show would weaken its power over me. I am systematically combing through multiple seasons, collecting video stills of various victims post-crime, rendering them in black watercolor on small squares of lightly tinted paper and then cataloging them using a simple code of season and episode number. The result is a work in progress which will continue to bloom as long as there are episodes and victims to fuel my compulsion. -Samantha Scherer
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01_001, 2008
Watercolor on paper.
2-1/2 x 2-1/2 inches.
$150
01_002_1, 2008
Watercolor on paper.
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$150
01_002_2, 2008
Watercolor on paper.
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$150
01_005, 2008
Watercolor on paper.
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$150
01_007, 2008
Watercolor on paper.
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$150
01_009, 2008
Watercolor on paper.
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$150
01_011, 2008
Watercolor on paper.
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$150
01_015, 2008
Watercolor on paper.
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$150
01_019_2, 2008
Watercolor on paper.
2-1/2 x 2-1/2 inches.
$150
01_020_1, 2008
Watercolor on paper.
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$150
01_020_2, 2008
Watercolor on paper.
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$150
01_021, 2008
Watercolor on paper.
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$150
02_025, 2008
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$150
02_026, 2008
Watercolor on paper.
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$150
02_030, 2008
Watercolor on paper.
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NFS
02_036, 2008
Watercolor on paper.
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$150
02_038, 2008
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$150
02_039, 2008
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02_042, 2008
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02_044, 2008
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03_047, 2008
Watercolor on paper.
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03_049, 2008
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03_050_1, 2008
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03_050_2, 2008
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03_052_1, 2008
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03_052_2, 2008
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03_057, 2008
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03_059, 2008
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03_060, 2008
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03_063, 2008
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03_064, 2008
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04_068, 2008
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04_070_1, 2008
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04_070_2, 2008
Watercolor on paper.
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NFS
04_071, 2008
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$150
04_076, 2008
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$150
04_078, 2008
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04_083, 2008
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04_084, 2008
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04_085, 2008
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$150
04_088, 2008
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$150
04_094, 2008
Watercolor on paper.
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NFS
05_091, 2008
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$150
14_302, 2008
Watercolor on paper.
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14_305, 2008
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14_309, 2008
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14_311, 2008
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14_313, 2008
Watercolor on paper.
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14_315, 2008
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$150
14_316, 2008
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14_317, 2008
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$150
14_319, 2008
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$150
14_320, 2008
Watercolor on paper.
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$150
14_321, 2008
Watercolor on paper.
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