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shards of zen
This series was shaped by a question I asked in 2010 after the completion of the work tixref -
What if the next work held itself by impermanent pressure rather than a permanent one?
Now I also had the opportunity to explore the forgiving nature of wood, combined with the more unforgiving nature of glass at a new limit.
What if the next work held itself by impermanent pressure rather than a permanent one?
Now I also had the opportunity to explore the forgiving nature of wood, combined with the more unforgiving nature of glass at a new limit.
JC
- Humans may share this world with non-humans, but by the same token, stones share it with non-stones, trees with non-trees and mountians with non-mountains. Yet where the stone ends and its contrary begins cannot be ascertained with any finality. The same goes for the tree and the mountain, even for the human... We should replace our nouns for naming things with verbs: ‘to stone’, ‘to tree’, ‘to mountain’, ‘to human’. At once the world we inhabit, and what we share with so many other things, no longer appears ready-cut, into things of this sort or that, along the lines of a classification. Instead we find ourselves pitched into a world in which things are ever-differentiating from one another along the folds and creases of their formation -
Ingold 2020, Correspondences p. 6-7
shards of zen (detail) | 2x 1.5 tonne scissor jacks, mdf, timber, 80 x 80 x 4 mm glass, fabric of building | c. 140 x 25 x 25 cm | Ullapool | 2019 | photographed by create create
shards of zen | 2019 | photographed by create create
shards of zen (detail) | 2019 | photographed by create create
shards of zen (detail) | 2019 | photographed by create create
shards of zen (detail) | 2019 | photographed by create create
shards of zen (detail) | 2019 | photographed by create create
shards of zen (detail) | 2x 1.5 tonne scissor jacks, mdf, timber, 80 x 80 x 4 mm glass, fabric of building | c. 40 x 30 x 180 cm | Edinburgh | 2013 | photographed by the artist
shards of zen | 2013 | photographed by the artist
shards of zen (detail) | 2013 | photographed by the artist
shards of zen (detail) | 2013 | photographed by the artist
shards of zen | 2013 | photographed by the artist
shards of zen | 1 tonne scissor jack, 2x coil springs, timber, mdf, plywood, 80 x 80 x 4 mm glass, fabric of building | c. 60 x 40 x 235 cm | Edinburgh | 2012 | photographed by the artist
shards of zen (detail) | 2012 | photographed by the artist
shards of zen (detail) | 2012 | photographed by the artist
shards of zen (detail) | 2012 | photographed by the artist
shards of zen | clamp, 20 x 20 x 4 mm glass, site | 15 x 8 x 2 cm | Yamaguchi | 2011 | photographed by the artist
shards of zen | 2011 | photographed by the artist
shards of zen | 2011 | photographed by the artist
shards of zen | 2011 | photographed by the artist