 This Organ Most extraordinary of devices What is this? A solid thing opening closing geometry material variation in all knowledge here applied practically gifting function sensed and felt feeling harmonics apparent complexity conceals fluid abbreviation towards a most simple interface elegance of integration through many centuries of refinement flow allowed flow altered pipes open to space a manufactured lung a voice box simulation resonance connecting deeply to a human body heart soul
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out from ground up across cluster spread nucleus periphery each takes makes beyond the centre from then becoming centre anew strength in numbers outward flow being done mechanical integration (design?) being this is what it is rather alternative iteration there is none other there is no design only there is becoming a consistent status of being that and this    Chair Projection 1 objects components (systems) broken busted reformed (become) an other thing sole purpose to be to hold to remain thing unmade made held flexible easily a body a system connective tissue seen unseen These precarious bodies are less about system failure than the unleashing of flexible and dynamic structures open to change.  Precarious Balance 2 - Tower  Chair Projection 2 in a system rather than that of fear- that balance will be lost unless the present status quo is maintained Instead that balance and authenticity are not lost ever they merely shift so that a previously unknown and unfamiliar point of balance is illuminated nothing is lost a newly uncovered dynamic relationship is discovered what is to be feared? what is to be secured? all is allowed the freedom to alter and change  Precarious Balance 1 (2020) Talking down dragonfly and butterfly prototypes exhibited for the week here at The Poly, Falmouth and couldn’t resist to reconnect with the life of Butterfly Prototype #5 (2016). A presentation of prototypes within the same room as a collection of masterfully designed and fabricated performing puppets assembled and presented by the Curious School of Puppetry. The Poly, Falmouth, Cornwall. 10-14 February 2020  The art pieces here presented are prototypes. They are form and movement explorations along my creative way; indicating where I have been and functioning as a physical-dynamic point of departure. Two separate journeys are presented in this selection of prototypes; A butterfly journey (2014 - 2017) culminating in the creation of the piece Flight is a Waltz, in collaboration with artist Dominic Harris, and presented at the prestigious Design Basel/Miami Exhibition in 2017. A dragonfly journey (2018-2019) resulting in the analogue, responsive work Dragonfly-Imago, the focus of a solo exhibition at Circus Gallery, Marylebone, London in 2019.  Puppetry is an art form which naturally transgresses boundaries.
Puppetry exists/has existed in some form within all traditional and modern cultures throughout the world. However simple, a puppet comes into being through an active observation of form, movement and rhythm. The physical aspect of puppetry is in essence a poetic exploration of what is currently termed biomechanics. The way in which a puppet is given movement by a person involves some form of interface, physical or remote. I feel that through an intimate relationship between Art and Science we all have much to gain. Art is text Art is information Art is communication A Body (of its many shapes only one is knowledge) to be studied to be built upon to be further developed Free is Flow Originality and Ownership are secondary... are tertiary ... Can Science become Art? Art was Science was Art was Science ... for millennia? perhaps Art is the wild nature of Human much as we reduce, quantify, exploit and package Nature at our peril so too with Art?  a form far removed “the driver” connected only just “the floating” about held impossibly too far letting float outward being floating being moving - wriggling - writhing this motion to depth parts almost not just yet this  a made-body outside of mine this other body outside my own experience the other body can this ever be fully integrated to my self? my full-self the total all-of-me this expressive other body what can it do? what can it not do? how does this other body feel? does this other body feel? away from my feeling  |
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