This idea comes from the stating/showing [http://www.rich-taylor.co.uk/systems2/stating_showing/systems_redwire_ci.htm] series in which I come up with an idea either in writing or in the form of a drawing or series of drawings. This idea runs from the logistical problems of projection and how this can be utilised and/or actualised as to represent something about the phenomena of perception within space. The work will have much to do with illusion. The drawings that are to be presented will be small and almost archival in scale, and will be framed. They will record the ongoing workings out of the installation process that in the end will result in the projection itself. The drawings will be mathematical in style and therefore analytical and technical in outlook, however their appearance will have more to do with the notion of illusion and how such a style in drawing emanates truth or indeed does not so. The drawings will be of my own workings-out as an artist, so therefore will be process driven and will most probably be wrong.
The projection itself will be of a simple film that is made of the rolling out of electrical tape from a straight on angle. In the actual film the tape will not reduce or enlarge in scale. However, after the film is made its appearance will be altered in preparation for the projection to be shown at a given angle against a wall. To deal with this angle and still present the tape as constant in scale there will be much adjustment mathematically to the actual film. All the adjustments that are to be made will be inversely proportional to the affects of the reality of the situation or presentation. Here I will be dealing with the problems and uses of perspective and how its illusions can be manipulated.
In the past I have presented other, more simple works, using the stating/showing method [http://redwireredwire.com/page42.htm]. I have exhibited an actual photocopied drawing using the proportioned properties of the A4 sketchbook and externalised the initial ideas that were presented within the pages. This photocopy was framed as an actual existing artwork. Also installed was an actual investigation into the space from the drawing [as instruction] whether it is wall based or ceiling or floor based.
What results is a relationship between the two. Furthermore, such a relationship then becomes questionable, as the realisation that is the installation within the space is inevitably changeable and is dependent on the given architecture. A question that comes from linguistic capabilities: what is stating and what is showing of the idea, and which comes first?
