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Almost Like a Whale or Paradise
Almost Like a Whale, phase 1, in the project space of S.C.E.N.E. 5 e.v. Plaster, plastic, fabric, wool. 2 x 2 x 4m.
This is the first stage of a work in progress which I intend to build on. I aim to build a site specific installation, building the sculpture into the space as an integrated part of the room with a giant spinal column running down the centre of the floor. On the floor, and spreading up the walls, a mass of blue veins made of fabric and knitted red capillaries, forming a carpet, interweaving with each other and extending across the floor space and up the walls to the ceiling, separated into segments and wrapped in clear plastic to represent muscle bundles.
the room towards the next room with a ‘heart’, a dark brown, veined, heart-shaped seat. The space will be framed within a curve suggesting the outer flesh. I would like to have mainly red lighting in this room. In the next room I would like to have stereographs hung low above the heart ‘seat’ so viewers are invited to sit on it and look through the stereographs showing images of paradise. A stereograph is a small viewing device which just about creates an optical illusion in 3 dimensions. The ones I will use are ‘View- masters’, 4 in all, showing 7 images each. It seems appropriate to show images of paradise in sets of seven. I have invited other contemporary artists and filmmakers to contribute images depicting their personal idea of paradise in addition to showing some of the religious images from antiquity which have helped to reinforce stereotypical paradise imagery.
Detail of 'muscle bundles'.
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