Richard writes to Ross
Hi Ross,
I am going to try and send some more work to you this week. I think we need to use the Abandoned house and work with that some more… it is a very interesting concept and it has the potential to create very interesting incisions in to our project, in terms of collaboration… I am even thinking of a mirrored space that is near to me… a similar space: I am wondering if you post to me some smaller pieces of your work then I can begin to include them in photographing work as a whole in my studio – beginning then to work out inferences between our work and formal connections if anything. What do you think? I think we need to produce as many images of our work as possible to illustrate what we’re doing and I think working in this ‘conference’ sort of way might generate these without enforcing them – a sort of curatorial infusion perhaps….
I might blog this rant of an email but I am thinking of possible images to go with the post. Perhaps the one’s I attach? What do you think?
I like most of all the idea of your work framing mine, another set of terms for a curatorial construct. And then the transference of this direct and collaborative exchange in to how my floor-based works might then create framing avenues to your work on the wall, or your works leant against the wall from the floor. But this is something we need to start exploring directly sooner rather than later! And indeed this will force us to define how we are approaching the roll of collaboration in this project – something we need to address physically alongside our individuating practises.
I call the images attached a set of conference images – them being a direct conference or exchange of one side of something with the other side. A mirrored image.
