After a long, hard, adrenalin fuelled week of work, I finished installing the ‘Slipping Contours' show last night. I'd been having some concerns about how to display work….Due to my interest in fragmentation, objects in the studio tend to be scattered on the floor and lie horizontally . This is the work's natural inclination. But this week has been about finding the appropriate solutions to arrive at a sense of balance between the vertical and the horiontal, the fragmented and the whole.
I've been working on a piece called ‘Section', a 50 kilo batt of cast plaster, painted to take on the appearance of aluminium. It has been a particularly interesting process because it became something way beyond that which I could have produced and handled myself in the studio. After much discussion and assistance from artist Andrew Bird, the work was hung from steel girders accessed beyond the ceiling but invisible to the eye, and hovered in space precariously.
I need to prepare for a talk about the residency next week but it feels too soon to stand back and access the whole experience. Serious reflection must begin now!
