Linking with Previous Work

It's surely an important and core element of any art practice to link and recognise links with previous works.
In art we have the same repertoire of ideas which are realised in various incarnations from childhood on. Even when working in new territories and when trying out radically different media or commissions, there is a personality in the thought pathways and the solutions they tend towards.

9th August 2013

There are particular works which come to mind, usually after I have made things, which I realise are more linked in themes throughout the years. All that matrix of connections and meanings throughout my entire body of work is the important references for me, above any research or influences outside myself. Once I recognise a direction of ideas in a work, or a different way I explored it before, it feels authentic to me. As long I have added some shades and aspects of thinking about it, I have a feeling of sense and purpose.

The previous piece I am now thinking about as relevant to current work is:

Influence, 2007

Influence. Interactive TV. The viewer's relationship with the screen, and what is beyond that threshold is a fundamental illusion seeming to transmit directly into the imagination. Here, the moving hand within seems to be making contact. Mixed media - vintage black and white TV, pantogram, filing cabinet and hidden technology. directions - move the pantogram device by thehandle, effecting and distorting the TV screen.

Influence was a vintage TV installation within a filing cabinet, with a hands on magnetic device to make it interactive.

Also Chairism, 2007, another TV installation.

Chairism. Our idea of solidity is one slice of the spectrum of reality. If solid objects are really in constant motion at a molecular level, perhaps our solidified thoughts and beliefs are also subject to change.

The statement about Chairism is still one I actively explore.

More relevant in layering is Seep, 2009

Seep. Time erases the boundaries of our selves, our bodies, and there is a letting of the person, a haemorrhaging, as we absorb the flow of tidal, cyclical, everyday experiences. Time seeps into our lives, as we seep into the overlaying membranes of our selves.

In Seep the merging layers are the piece. 

These, and many other recurring ideas, I recognise that I am developing in the Reflective Practice Construction.

22nd August 2013