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Is this the place for duplication?

Image directories. One image holds the centre of the next image, this image gives away its centre as it knows its own centre will have space on the image that comes after. This is another form of collaboration. I do believe:

An old sculpture trail

“This is a triangulated object that helps us focus. Existing in time, in and around the changing colour of leaves, it changes with each perspective that is happened upon it – it is no sociological structure just an object for precise contemplation…”

What of this object then? How can it act as a point in direct collaboration and why? And why would anyone care as half the time it is just covered in leaves? This photograph is very orange – you need to change the white-balance on it – it looks old… too old.

“It will work as a point of collaboration as it is a formal pyramid with four sides. Each side a reflection of the respective other – a geometric representation of the actuality that happens during collaboration. A propensity object. Each side is the same, but as you turn slowly around the concrete pyramid you notice imperfections that spell out differences. There are indeed many differences that this photograph does not depict – in many ways this is a romanticised representation of the object and its specific location. For one thing the object is framed yet again by the camera’s eye – a direct response to the perspective of the viewer…”

How do you mean it is a romanticised version?

“Well, what you do not see in this image is the two people dressed in patterned dialogue. One holding a stick, the other precariously wearing high heels muddied by the turf. These two people have the collaborative ability to de-familiarise the object… so take a long hard stare. At the photograph that is not the object in front of you. Take your stare and keep it – the next time the object is framed and shot it will be entirely different.”

How will it be different?

“Lets just say it will be something like standing on your head…”


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