Showing posts with label knots. Show all posts
Showing posts with label knots. Show all posts
Thursday
The Magic Golden Knot
Picture frames, fluoro price stickers, fishing line, and a magic golden knot. A tribute to the cheap special effects I grew up on. The mysterious spinning energy in a cube, that powered a ship or connected to another dimension. (The golden knot spins in its container.) I remember my parents explaining that Buck Rogers and Dr. Who were frighteningly real in the 70s, that often they would have to hide behind the sofa, almost too scared to watch.
Monday
Knots
Two knots, made with poly-rope and lots of time. One is 15m of white, the other 10m white and 5m black. These growths or complexes are macquettes for a series of large sculptures I am preparing to make in the New Year.
Tuesday
Temporal Meditation (The Black Queen's Pawn)
This is an initial 'sketch' for the Black Queen, one of the pieces of round two of 'the a game'. It is about 19 x 22 x 26cm and made from 15m of knotted seagrass, stained with indian ink. While making it I had to improvise some thimble-like finger guards from masking tape as the repetition of movements involved in knotting the fibre began to wear away at my skin. The final version will be larger and act as a kind of crystallized performance; I will attempt to knot a longer rope of seagrass fibres in one sitting meditation. Temporal is a weak pun on time and neuroanatomy.My recent work has been moving towards aspects of process and performance, and not only in durational, endurance activities such as this and my network drawings: I have found that the aspect of exhibiting my work that is most exciting is the opportunity to use the work as a seed and a site for dialogue with the public.
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