BIG BLACK DOT

2026

At the end of the ‘Ithaca’ chapter of James Joyce’s Ulysses the enigmatic reply to the final question “Where?” should be an enlarged full stop. Despite Joyce’s instructions for a large, clearly visible point many editions insert an alternative sign and some even omit it altogether, leaving the question unanswered. Interpretations of the mark’s meaning are legion, but this work draws a connection to the subsequent episode ‘Penelope’, as pages of a copy of Molly Bloom’s soliloquy (originally produced during an ‘extreme’ retyping jag on the night of Bloomsday 2016) were overlaid at regular angles to form an unmistakable big black dot.

NFT