Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
...But consider what value, what meaning is enclosed even in the smallest of our daily habits, in the hundred possessions which even the poorest beggar owns: a handkerchief, an old letter, the photo of a cherished person. These things are part of us, almost like limbs of our body; nor is it conceivable that we can be deprived of them in our world, for we immediately find others to substitute the old ones, other objects which are ours in their personification and evocation of our memories.
If This is a Man, Primo Levi (Page 33)
Initial objects that I was playing around with in the studio
Chair
'Chair' is the word for 'Flesh' in French.
Film that I presented in a crit with the laptop placed under the chair I am sitting on in the film (shown above). I had the idea to make it during Victoria Lucas' visiting artist lecture. I liked her unusual placement of the television, possibly relating to the objects depicted in the films.
Generally unsuccessful attempt! But raised interesting point:
- Fragments are more intriguing
- Experiment with projection
- Demonstrated my personal connection to the objects; I haven't worn the negligee since I was a child (it made up the princess costume in our dressing up box). Perhaps too (alarminly?) personal. Hence the greater appeal of fragments of the body, such as when my body is lit by the light I'm holding and you can only see my face and hands. What do I want to say with this?
http://www.victorialucas.co.uk/image.aspx?id=65&w=560&h=379&a=true
Ann Harild, Looking Glass, shown in Shadowlines exhibition at the Tintype Gallery. Wish I had seen it!
http://www.artlicks.com/files/3752/600px_ah-filmstill3-copy.jpg
My use of the lightbulb was inspired by another memorial, this time Tadeusz Mysłowski's Shrine installation at Majdanek concentration camp in Lublin, Poland, which I visited this Summer.
LIGHT
Lygia Pape, Magnetized Space
http://artnews.org/files/0000067000/0000066522.jpg/Lygia_Pape.jpg
