Blue Oyster Art Project Space, 2003
In this body of work I continue to explore our subjectivity to systems of orientation through mediums which function to locate, store and transmit information via memoria technica (artificial memory). Primarily the book and its text are manipulated to create a sense of disruption and to question recognised systems of the archive, both historically and in the contemporary world. In these works framing devices are used to further negotiate and transgress borders and boundaries; through the isolation of the culled texts, repositories are bound by the frame and re-presented on the wall. The frame imposes order, classifies and taxonomises yet its content remains an abstraction. The works present to the viewer cameos of incoherent babble and an unsettling topiary of volumes which defy the landscape format in a reconfigurated topography/typography. Extruded reliefs impose a sense of vertigo. The severed bit streams of codex reference how text becomes potential manipulation through digital mediums where the difference between primary and secondary text vanishes - the marks of memory becoming blurred.
"Decoy" & "Esc." - 3 minute video loop, computer keys, colonial white acrylic paint, "Bound" - sculpted books and picture frames, "Twice removed" - 16 cameos, books, frames and red ribbon.