THE AMBIENCE IF THE FACTROY
The overall feeling I want to create in the factory or my installation is one of discomfort or amazement. I want there to be sounds of pure terror. I want the scene to look like this in my head. I want the pumping engine to be turning the cables to be driving back and forth like octopus tentacles steam and smoke to be squirting out of the engine exhausts the grinding and squeaking of the metal the bubbles splashing on the floor to be in total darkness except for a few spotlights illuminating the machine and the subject, the smell of the soap the disinfectant the smell of the rusty metal electric in the air. I want this to be as real as I can make it.
THE HUMAN SUBJECT
The narrative of the story of the factory is still unclear to me. I do not know where the subjects were taken from or what happens to them in the end of the factory process, but I would like to leave that open to interpretation or not to have any interpretation, but only what is clear to see. The subjects go through extreme transformation through the purging system, but it is forced purging from the original sculptures, whether purging came from the mouth, this purging is going to come from the stomach. The fluids will be pumped in through the mouth and force out through the stomach instead of being pumped from the reverse and coming out through the mouth. I want this to show the stubbornness of man to forgive and forget and his inability to say sorry. This is me forcing man to admit its faults, the expansion is a symbolic of bubbles. The subjects experience extreme expansion in their cranial and in their abdomen area. I want the factory to look like a scene from hell.
THE MACHINERY INSIDE THE FACTORY
I wanted the machinery itself to be of enormous scale to emphasize the lack of power that humans have against them the machines, all drawn off their own power source creating fumes that add to the hell like atmosphere inside the factory.I want the machines seem unstoppable and somehow I want them all to have their own unique style and design all fit for purpose of where they are based in the factory. Some look like claws, some look like beaks, some like spiders legs. This all adds to the horror and the theme of the factory.Engines power every piece of machinery inside the factory with tubes powering Pistons and pumps. I want the machinery to be seen to be working, all the mechanics would be on show to create more of an industrial feel and to emphasize the power of the machines themselves.
SKETCHBOOK
I wanted to create a metal sketchbook to give it an industrial feel and to place you closer to the figures that are drawn. I want you to smell the metal, feel the coldness, the rough and smooth, the creeks of the hinges and bolts, the weight Itself are like the shackles that bind Marley’s ghost in Scrooge. The drawings inside the sketchbooks show the stages of the processes that take place inside the factory. The factory is on the size that is unimaginable and would take a lifetime to see by one person. the factory is all controlled by machinery and has tracks and lifts heading to all parts of the factory to take the subjects to various rooms for purification or transformation. They enter through the main gate at the front of the factory on head clamps that are inserted through the ear canal, and then taken to the cargo drop-off where they are dropped into metal tanks, which will be taken to the sorting room. In the sorting room there are sorting arms, which then further pick out individuals to be taken to further rooms on in the factory, then from the sorting room they go to quarantine. This is where they are then blasted with the liquid cleaning solution and on they go to the masking room where the masks are attached for the pumping of the soap into their body, they are hoisted up as if the bubble ready to burst
THE NON-HUMAN PRESENCE IN THE FACTORY
I want the factory to be clear of human intervention. The only thing that runs the factory are the machines, by which I know not of their origin, they are there and I have no knowledge of where they came from. Everything in the factory sets run like clockwork, with machines looking after machines and repairing each other, toiling cogs and repairing chains. As I said the factory is not dependent on anyone or anything but itself, it is sustainable, it has its own life force to which is never ending until it has run out of things to transform.
