Work for the 2019 NCAD evening school exhibition.

Themes

Seperation/Wholeness (Holograph)

Holography as an instrument of wholeness, grief as a kind of separation. To be in a state of grief is to be removed, but holographically complete. What is the process of restoration? It is a matter of fidelity, resolution and clarity. The larger the whole, the richer the wholeness.

This I find very interesting, as it resonates with my experience. While suffering you are still outwardly complete and perhaps even inwardly as well, but clearly there is a deficit at work, what is it which you lack in this case?

• A holograph defies framing
  • You can not erect a single stable frame for all perceptions
• And the idea of synecdoche follows here as well
  • On a personal level, you are the part which represents the whole
  • That recognition, inwards and outwards, in a solipsistic way

Parents

• The continuation of the self from other selves
• Emotional history of others encoded in your own maladies
  • The epigenesis of grief
  • Grief thats larger than one lifetime
  • That's harder to see let alone confront

Destruction

• Separation of things is required for analysis of them
  • You must kill a thing to analyse it
  • Life is always observed in wholeness
  • In this way it defies analysis
• The absence of separation is connection with the whole, awareness, spirituality
  • Who wants to be responsible for reconstructing an entire universe from the bottom up?

Memory/Time

• Imagery as the primary modality
  • But imagination is the bigger part vs. recollection
• Higher-kinded memories, memories of memories
• Stories you reinforce
  • Volatility and preservation of preferred experience
  • Do not remember too often or too vigorously, or you will taint them
• Time
  • Rendering higher dimensions into lower ones
  • Multiplicity
  • Rendering lower dimensions into higher ones

Work

Photographic experiments exploring the conceptual holograph, grief, memory.

Then, considering higher dimensional events projected to lesser dimensions - expanded three dimensional space and unbounded time on a finite two dimensional area with looped time.

I started with a miniature projector which was to be encapsulated in a box, making the smallest possible screen the only field. To achieve this, a reducing lens was used to adjust the focal length down to a few inches.

This leads to the projector itself, no longer a hidden mechanism, but rather a bound counterweight to the screen. The psychogeographical film loops on the screen continuously.

The exhibition setup. The projector was battery powered, but after the first weekend, I was compelled to use a mains power supply to keep the loop running continuously.