I am using the time in residence at Outlandia to build on my previous body of work by documenting techniques, strategies and games I invent and construct to measure the duration of my stay in Glen Nevis. Such play is informed from limited materials such as those I carry to Outlandia and those I find within the landscape – such as rocks, trees, vegetation, paths, e.t.c – and is framed through seriousness, the mundane, nonsense, failure and success.
First I sat down to listen and contemplate my new and refreshing surroundings. On the walk up to Outlandia, I encountered images like snapshots and sound like water droplets. I gathered items that caught my curiosity to begin to record my first material.
Inspired by Kurs Scwitter’s Dada Mertzbau, I built small columns out of the items I collected and recorded them defying the pull of gravity, until my interventions caused them to collapse. There is beauty in this process and it’s simpplicity that I find arresting – it hints at the inpsiration of Outlandia and the curiosity and processes that surround Scwitter’s works.
I gathered 2 sticks, 12 pine cones (of various sizes and from 3 differnet trees) and 7 stones (of diffreent types and colours).
Do things because you can.
Failure is everything.
