4.8038206872 (damage), 2025 - ongoing
Documentation, clear tape and pvc film strips, cardboard dust, hair, skin, fibres, perspex. Approx 200cm x 56cm x 25cm
4.8038206872 (residue), 2025 - ongoing
Clear tape residue accumulated from returning the material objects I constructed from clear tape back to their origin, collected as a mass of clear tape off-cuts, shards, and dust. As a byproduct in this process, this mass has inadvertently become a separate work in itself. Each small layer is a host, that carries multiple elements such as dust, hair and skin particles (skin cells, fingerprints and other remains of dna) that were accrued from its original process in making the objects, as well as additional marks and imprints of other's body's through performance, interaction or touch. Further accumulations, such as, cardboard dust and shavings, fibres from clothing, more hair, skin cells etc., throughout the piece's extended indexical and durational journey, are now new companions, as they mingle in different shades of transparency.
Documentation (studio instal view), clear tape, pvc film, dust, hair, skin, fibres, plastic carrier bag. 40cm x 31cm x 26cm approx
4.8038206872 (incision), 2025 - ongoing
Appointing a Stanley knife and its numerous blades seemed the best possible incising instrument to aid the cutting, splicing and dissecting of each clear tape object in the first stages of returning this 'object-material' back to its origin. The unexpected was revealed in the clear tape’s adhesive becoming congealed and stuck to the surface of each blade, where the tape has imparted, leaving traces of its own demise. This act has in itself served to become another arm to this series, creating what can only be described as an 'aftermath' in the wake of the numerous hours of cutting and trimming the clear tape objects to fit the 211 spools dimensions. This added an extra layer of the indexical and haptical relationship to material, as a proposition for the counterparts in this small series, transforming these consumable products to oscillate into something less neutral, or material, but into objects.
Documentation. 12 knife blades, clear tape and tape adhesive, pvc film residue, cardboard dust, hair, skin, fibres. Dimensions: 5.5cm x 2cm and 6cm x 5cm (including residual matter)
4.8038206872 (inversion), 2025 -ongoing
Destroying any body of work, is something an artist hesitates in contemplating. In this instance, it is a crucial part to making this small series. Involving recent works created from clear tape and PVC film - both sculptural and choreographic in nature, are dismantled, cut up and reassembled in an act of returning this ‘object-material’ to its origin, or at least a semblance of sorts. The title alludes to the statistical data gathered from the various works created as a means (and curiosity), to summon up its currency in the form of measure and quantity. Together with its counterpart, ‘4.8038206872 (residue)’, both share stages of making / un-making. These works, once created from clear tape, no longer exist, and are now ‘hidden in plain sight’ as new arrangements of themselves. Their new forms hold a provenance of indexical, haptic gestures amassed in their making, performing and display.
Documentation (studio instal view) clear tape, PVC film, dust, hair, skin, fibres, original cardboard reels, perspex cases. 41cm x 41cm x 72cm
