Instance
Richard Taylor: Instance is what defines this project, even this blog is a definition of this – a forum for permanence and conversation yet a stop-gap for fleeting and instant ideas and comments. Instances are also being explored in our approach to submitting the project to various people to realise the collaboration in a more physical arena. This arena had better be prepared for something sculptural as well has having some wall space to arrive at drawings either framed or unframed.
It is hard to work on more than one project at once. Yet this is perhaps the nature of being an artist, being the same as a multi-linguist for a traveller of the idea, in other words being able to stretch yourself from one place to the other – putting one sort of head on for one person and then a helmet on for another.
My instance right now is rushed. And I feel like my ideas are floating around me like icebergs in polluted water – the mere tip of them protruding as a tread water, the rest of them only revealed with each deep breath I inhale, and the amount I see defined by how long I can hold this breath for.
An instance then is perhaps the amount of time I can hold my breath underwater. Right now I do not feel my lungs are so strong.
Instance can be a positive thing though, a sculptural trail, every short amount of time matched by each corner you turn and each grassy verge you surmount – the next sculpture viewed against a verdant backdrop. I really think this collaborative process can be likened to this sort of ‘instance’, this collaborative process even more so as the geographical distance between Ross and myself could well be restrictive, you have to wait for the backdrop to be more realised, you have to wait for the next avenue to reveal itself, you have to wait until the other person replies.
I have begun to think about how my working process is about instance. The instance of arriving at a particular arrangement of objects in the studio, but then not having a direct forum to call this installation finished. I have to then enlist another directive to ensure this finality – I believe this is photography Ross I really do.
We shall see how this goes Ross, we really shall.
