RE-VISIT, RE-VIEW PART 3
The next project I’m working on is a one weekend only show in an empty shop space (with a difference), entitled Display Only, on the 14tth and 15th May as part of Eastbourne Festival. I say empty shop “with a difference” because the shop is the front section of what was originally a music hall come cinema come bingo hall and the space where I’m to make my work is a now truncated “Upper Circle”.
The focus of the re-visiting and re-viewing this time is the work which I made for my MA show last year. That work, an installation called The Golden Seed, evolved rapidly during the final intense four weeks of the course and was built for the space in which I was working at that time. At the end of the show I felt disconcerted that I was left with no “work” as such – just a pile of timber, 20 square metres of mylar reflective foil, 4 fans, a HID grow light, a tree, a text and five golden seeds. This seemed to me a slightly unsatisfactory outcome after a year’s work invested with such intense thought and research, and since then I have been thinking about how The Golden Seed might exist again in other spaces and perhaps in other forms.
So, Display Only offers me the opportunity of a quirky space in which to pick up the work where I left off 7 months ago and see what it might become this time.
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