depositum




Paint is rarely seen as an object itself. It adheres to what it hides and essentially becomes the hidden object.

JC


This work was inspired by the paint on the ceilings and walls of 77 Mgarr Road Qala. A combination of moisture alteration, sunlight and gravity caused paint to flake and fall. The artist has picked and collected these flakes and merely represented them hovering on pins above the ground where they would have eventually been deposited.


77 Mgarr Road Qala | digital image | Gozo | 2016 | photographed by create create
77 Mgarr Road Qala | digital image | Gozo | 2016 | photographed by create create
collected paint fragments | digital image | Gozo | 2014 | photographed by the artist
depositum (detail) | flaked paint on drawing pins | c. 120 x 50 x 1 cm | Edinburgh | 2014 | photographed by the artist
depositum | Edinburgh | 2014 | photographed by the artist
depositum | Edinburgh | 2014 | photographed by the artist
depositum | Edinburgh | 2014 | photographed by Nial Stevenson
depositum (detail) | Edinburgh | 2014 | photographed by Nial Stevenson




The next intervention within this series gets inspired by the flaked paint within the derelict Leith Theatre, as documented below. Found flaked paint is collected and represented hovering just above the ground pivoted on pins a marginal fraction away from its immediate surroundings.


depositum II (detail) | flaked paint on drawing pins | dimensions variable | Edinburgh | 2017 | photographed by the artist
depositum II (detail) | Edinburgh | 2017 | photographed by create create
depositum II (detail) | Edinburgh | 2017 | photographed by create create




Found paint inhabiting the frame as informed by the flaked paint installations’ relation to edges. In this case, the consideration in question is, whether the flaked paint or the frame inform the resulting shape of the other. These particular works informed the series imċaqlaq


depositum III | flaked paint, drawing pins, glue, reconfigured found frame | 31 x 42 x 4 cm | 2014 | photographed by create create
depositum III | flaked paint, drawing pins, glue, purpose-designed frame | 102 x 46 x 13 cm | 2014| photographed by create create


    



     

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