Thursday, 26 January 2012

Preserve/Destroy/Unravel


Before immersing the cardigan in wax, I snipped a few threads and gradually unravelled some of the weave.  The cardigan was then treated in the same way as the others - the holes grew bigger as the weight of the wax pulled the fabric down.  The resulting piece has the appearance of being 'preserved' mid-destruction.


In the same way that recording sound allows it to exist outside of its original time and context, visual film creates the same possibility.  I projected the film recording taken earlier of the moving shadow and suspended the now destroyed, still object in front of it.  The spatial relationship between the two elements suggests that there is a connection between this object and its apparent shadow, but the shadow is of course behaving independently and is now dislocated from the object which originally produced it.