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Production Still from Bradley's 2000 video "The Laurel Tree" in which the actress Chloe Sevigny recites a passage from Thomas Mann's novella "Tonio Kröger."
"The passage, which swiftly and eloquently contrasts the sacrifice of being an artist with the touching yet irritating presumptions of the dilettante, is written in a unmistakable 19th-century male voice. To hear it commandingly spoken by a woman is deeply affecting." Roberta Smith, New York Times, Sept 15. 2000.
Upon relocating to Berlin in 2014, Bradley revisited the Laurel Tree body of work and reprinted this series. He adorned Sevigny, now a world wide Icon, with his signature gold marker technique which produces a halo effect of golden energy waves emanating from and around her.
Fun fact: While producing the fourth and final work of this series Bradley made an error and decided to cover over the entire work in gold. He had accidentally created the first "Shield" work, a series which has defined the work he has created in Germany over the last five years.