Invisible Man…
Animal Man…
Unapologetic Man…
Who has the authority to name and to shape, to give a name or to take it away?
This work uses multiple media transfers from super8 film, home telecine, TV screen re-filming and framing to re-contextualize and explore images of mechanical and biological transformations.
A VHS recording showing the movements of a cast iron mechanical money box reappear having been re-cast as a wax candle. This transferring from one media to another, one object to another an action into a sound conveys a fascination with culturally haunted legacies.
“Why should I apologize for what…..”
P.W. Botha, 1998
‘Tis true my form is something odd, But blaming me is blaming God; Could I create myself anew I would not fail in pleasing you. If I could reach from pole to pole Or grasp the ocean with a span, I would be measured by the soul; The mind’s the standard of the man.
Joseph Merrick adapted from “False Greatness” Isaac Watts 1743
Then came the crash of sound and I felt the iron head crumble and fly apart in my hand.
My briefcase with the broken image lay on the table. I would get rid of the package later……
Chapter Fifteen, Invisible Man 1952