Long after the day has gone, there is light. It has been a tough week for the residency but, hopefully, I am in a new phase. Am also managing some studio practice as well. The determination that the residency should not be an extension of my normal (what is normal?) studio work has created a few complications. Think now that they can run side by side, not parallel but as linked areas of practice. Should I have posted at the lowest point of the week? Well, probably but….
Through installation, expanded sculpture, photography and film and sometimes pseudo-scientific experiments, I am trying to create a dialogue between space and place using interventions and interruptions as part of a site-specificity that explores in-between spaces, inside and outside, nowhere and somewhere. I use temporary, ephemeral and provisional interruptions, to locate, re-locate and re-contextualise territory referencing what has been, what is or what could be, the past, the present and the future and where it intersects with the human relationship. They often refer to incidental happenings that create a transformation of objects. The notion of absence, as possibility rather than lack, is an underlying theme within the concepts of territory, whether historical, political, geographical, cultural as well as how it is colonized, altered, used and navigated and, relating to this, place and placelessness.Â
