Suspended Like Scales Pt 1

"When people look at your work, as in all art, they are looking with their own eyes, not yours... how fascinating it would be to analyse what [the viewer] is seeing and what [they] cannot bear to be confronted with." ~ Sigmund.

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So the installation is made up of two 6 x 2.5 ft collages, facing one another, Rapture and Rupture. They are made from flattened packing boxes mounted onto wooden frames, then painted, written on, drawn on, and then pinned with flotsam and jetson collected over the past year, including photogrpahs and extracts from my writing and blogging.

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Rapture

At the centre of Rapture is a figurative nest made from twigs and feathers i found on the streets of east belfast, scraps of wool from Jayne, a passage from LoserBaby on community cut up into individual lines and tied to the twigs, and all surrounded by a burst of origami peace cranes made by the girls some months back over sunday coffees in clements. the large photo of me is the one that i use for my blogger profile that jude took in belfast this summer - i put it through Rastorbator and then painted over it.

Photos taken by Ricky McQuillan, October 12 2006. (Thanks chum!)
As always, click on images to enlarge.










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