Richard:
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Really like Ross’s collection of images below – I can’t get out of my head this process of wandering and creating, of finding existing pieces and forms and then making and molding forms that will eventually be exhibited.
Yesterday I took Ross’s parcel of drawings to the studio and littered my floor and other found objects with its contents. I have also recently submitted an explanation of existing work to a gallery and decided to give more detailed accounts of an old piece of work I created last winter for a show in Glasgow:
Image 2: ‘Museum Collection’ (related objects apparently to do with circulatory flow) is an object-based installation dealing with objects you would find in a ‘museum’, the large wooden panels with holes in are from circulatory vents installed in Leeds City Museum. This piece is a diorama using the panels as models for displaying ‘museum’ and/or everyday objects.
Diorama seems to be the operative word I am looking for. The images in this post are cross-sections of my work in development photographed next to and along side, on top of or underneath the work that Ross sent down to me from Lumsden. They too are models – scaled definitions of stories and journeys and set ups. They are in fact the beginnings of a consolidation in our exchanges and conversations – indeed they exemplify how drawing can be used as a collaborative tool, even though Ross and myself have not met face to face for over six months now.
BUT we will meet again and this will be in the context of a gallery not a studio, so will these works be used or are these images just sketches for what is to come? I have found it hard not t reveal a particular work here, a particular work that is well photographed already – I am reserving it for Ross to see face to face, as I do not want to spoil the surprise. It will be shelving for his working process, just as the wall drawings he is planning will be framing for my work.
Possible titles then: I cannot stop thinking of the word mire. Mire is a bog or a patch of mud – but non-the-less it is a ‘something’ that is happened upon during a journey. It is something you make a choice upon, whether to step around, jump over or wade through. Inference-Mire, would be a suggestion from my end: a deduction of a project in to the simplification that is an exhibition. But the exhibition is also a conundrum of work placed together?
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INFERENCE-MIRE
