4.8038206872 miles (durational inversion), 2025 -ongoing
Destroying any body of work, is something an artist hesitates in contemplating. In this instance, it is a crucial part to making this small series. Involving recent works created from clear tape and PVC film - both sculptural and choreographic in nature, are dismantled, cut up and reassembled in an act of returning this ‘object-material’ to its origin, or at least a semblance - ending up as a simulacra of sorts. The title alludes to the statistical data gathered from the various works created as a means (and curiosity), to summon up its currency in the form of measure and quantity.
Together with its counterpart, ‘4.8038206872 miles (durational residue)’, both share stages of making and un-making. These works, once created from clear tape, no longer exist, and are now ‘hidden in plain sight’ as new arrangements of themselves. Their new forms mimic reels of film, holding a provenance of indexical, haptic gestures amassed in their making, performing and display, are presented as their own imagined footage to a moving image.
4.8038206872 miles (durational inversion), 2025 -ongoing
Installation (studio view), clear tape, PVC film, dust, hair, skin, fibres, original cardboard reels, perspex cases. 41cm x 41cm x 72cm
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4.8038206872 miles (durational residue), 2025 - ongoing
Clear tape residue accumulated from returning the material objects constructed from clear tape back to their origin, collected as a mass of clear tape off-cuts, shards, and fragments. Each small layer is a host, that carries multiple elements such as dust, hair and skin particles (skin cells, fingerprints and other remains of dna) that were accrued from its original process in making the objects, as well as additional marks and imprints of other's body's through performance, interaction or touch.
This piece and its counterpart, both allude to and share connotations to celluloid film stock - at the point of being spliced and put back together in its editing. Further accumulations, such as, cardboard dust and shavings, fibres from clothing, more hair, skin cells etc., throughout the piece's extended indexical and durational journey, are now new companions, as they mingle in different shades of transparency.
Installation (studio view), clear tape, pvc film, dust, hair, skin, fibres, plastic carrier bag. 40cm x 31cm x 26cm approx
4.8038206872 miles (durational residue), 2025 - ongoing
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4.8038206872 miles (durational incision), 2025 - ongoing
Assigning a Stanley knife and its numerous blades seemed the best possible incising instrument to aid the cutting, splicing and dissecting of each clear tape object in the first stages of returning this 'object-material' back to its origin.
What was unexpected was the tape’s adhesive congealing and sticking to the surface of each blade, where the tape imparts and leaves traces of its own demise. This act has served as another arm to this series, creating what can only be described as an 'aftermath' to the numerous hours and days of cutting and trimming the clear tape objects to fit the 211 cardboard reels dimensions.
This in turn has added an extra layer of the indexical and haptical relationship to material, as a proposition for the counterparts in this small series of durational works, transforming each facet of these recognisable consumable products or ‘ready-mades’ to oscillate into something less neutral, or material, but into objects.
4.8038206872 miles (durational incision), 2025 - ongoing
Documentation, knife blades, clear tape adhesive and pvc film residue, cardboard dust, hair, skin, fibres. Dimensions variable
4.8038206872 miles (durational incision), 2025 - ongoing
Documentation, knife blades, clear tape adhesive and pvc film residue, cardboard dust, hair, skin, fibres. Dimensions variable
4.8038206872 miles (durational incision), 2025 - ongoing
Documentation, knife blades, clear tape adhesive and pvc film residue, cardboard dust, hair, skin, fibres. Dimensions variable
4.8038206872 miles (durational incision), 2025 - ongoing
Documentation, knife blades, clear tape adhesive and pvc film residue, cardboard dust, hair, skin, fibres. Dimensions variable
4.8038206872 miles (durational incision), 2025 - ongoing
Documentation, knife blades, clear tape adhesive and pvc film residue, cardboard dust, hair, skin, fibres. Dimensions variable
4.8038206872 miles (durational incision), 2025 - ongoing
Documentation, knife blades, clear tape adhesive and pvc film residue, cardboard dust, hair, skin, fibres. Dimensions variable
4.8038206872 miles (durational incision), 2025 - ongoing
Documentation, knife blades, clear tape adhesive and pvc film residue, cardboard dust, hair, skin, fibres. Dimensions variable
4.8038206872 miles (durational incision), 2025 - ongoing
Documentation, knife blades, clear tape adhesive and pvc film residue, cardboard dust, hair, skin, fibres. Dimensions variable
4.8038206872 miles (durational incision), 2025 - ongoing
Documentation, knife blades, clear tape adhesive and pvc film residue, cardboard dust, hair, skin, fibres. Dimensions variable
4.8038206872 miles (durational incision), 2025
Documentation, knife blades, clear tape adhesive and pvc film residue, cardboard dust, hair, skin, fibres. Dimensions variable
4.8038206872 miles (durational incision), 2025
Documentation, knife blades, clear tape adhesive and pvc film residue, cardboard dust, hair, skin, fibres. Dimensions variable