From The Cast Room
Mixed media
Dimensions variable
May, 2015
In 2012, I
embarked upon a project that has been influenced by or makes reference to a
variety of texts. The project broadly
looked at the workings of the inner and outer worlds of experience, landscape
and the need for convalescence during and after a non visible illness. The texts include Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer, The Waste Land by T S Eliot, Nancy
Holt and Robert Smithson in England, 1969,
Smithson's A Tour of The Monuments of
Passaic, New Jersey, the poem Ozymandias
by Percy Bysshe Shelley and Patrick Keiller's The View From The Train.
The project has
six parts, of which the one shown here at Spike
Island Open 2015, is Part 5, a version of The Cast Room (Things To Do While Convalescing). Parts 1 and 6 are video works or brief films:
Voyager, shot in Paris and Margate, Rollright/Silbury recorded at the stone circle in Oxfordshire and the earth mound in
Wiltshire. The other parts are: Part 2, a
text, Logbook, Part 3 Alpines and Part 4, a set of paintings made
on card and art related publicity material.
