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Clumsy Precision

19/9/2020

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The tools of precision are used for the imprecise
the cogs
and gears
wear with friction

causing another quality of moving

The machine
is released from functionality

then it is wild
can work
can break
can wear out
​

can be in any way
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This Organ

3/7/2020

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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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seed reflections

16/6/2020

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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
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most recent works

10/4/2020

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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.
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Precarious Balance 2 - Tower
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Chair Projection 2
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Notions of Balance

17/3/2020

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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
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Precarious Balance 1 (2020)
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reconnecting

15/2/2020

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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).
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Prototyping Movement

12/2/2020

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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

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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.
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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.
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drawing

31/1/2020

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Art for Science

28/1/2020

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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?
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simplicity

27/1/2020

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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

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