Fractions series, 2003/4
This series of work came about as I was reflecting on a specific period of time of isolation from that which was known to me, isolation by choice, but an intense form of seclusion nonetheless. Particular details of my year in the P.R. China seem to linger; visual, audio and olfactory impressions aside, appreciations of space and spatial relations appear to function as important elements in my recollections. The SARS epidemic broke out during my stay, which furthered the sense of isolation I was already sensing from being in a country so ‘cut off' from the rest of the world – however, no matter how much I search through my notes and photographs I cannot seem to ‘find' evidence of that feeling. They may contain a small part, a fraction, of that anxiety, loneliness, fear, separation or discomfort that I experienced, and it is only my in personal memory, inaccessible to others, that these feelings exist. This series of photographs, Fractions, taken during the last few months of my time in the P.R. China, showing split views of fractions of fractions, reveals one of many searches and attempts to connect with this ‘time lost' and the related anxious feelings. Perhaps it says speaks of my attempts to deal with the situation at the time, as much as it speaks of my efforts to connect with it a year later, and the searches for indications of it through my ‘documents'.
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