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Stop_Dreaming 2016-07-14

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patriotic nascar 2014-02-23

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4824589026_548963af86 2014-02-23

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Burnout 2013-09-08

Burnout

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Burnout (text by Eleanor Clare) 2013-08-14

Burn Out

Through the grainy unsteady image and the sound, distorted by low quality compression, it
seems like something is trying to break through. The first few seconds sound like noise
pulled through a synthesizer, screaming and kicking as it emerges, fighting for life in its new
digital form. Something about it is alarming, frightening, tortured and angry. It is half-formed,
raw and unrefined. Streaks of red and white light flash across the screen.

It is an arena for action. Something about this situation that is chaotic; yet there is an
element of control. The driver makes tight circles around a central axis. At first this is
demarcated by a traffic cone, but as things proceed, the silhouette of a young man moves into the
centre. The car stops and revs up, creating billows of smoke in the air, obliterating vision for
a few moments. As the car skids and screeches, I feel a sense of alarm. This is coming close to
disaster for the lone, central figure, potential victim of the anonymous driver, a sacrifice for
the entertainment of onlookers. I can sense also the collusion. One figure willingly places his
trust in the other. There is a tension between these two.

*

A smoky, fiery object is spinning recklessly. One might say things had spun out of control.
Not quite though; for to completely lose control would mean total destruction. It would mean the
end. It all went up in flames. This is a sudden, intense and short lived burst of energy. More
like a supernova than the sun, and more akin to a meteor careering around a planet, than a planet
orbiting the sun. It was more than this, though. This scene was not simply about objects in space;
it was human. It was a game or a task, perhaps even a ritual.

Although I can identify it as a human activity, shot through with the implications of one's
relationship to another, from my vantage point it also seemed anonymous. In the dark, these
figures could be anyone, totally unrecognisable by the light of day. In this moment they had a
relationship to one another. Certainly for the two central protagonists, it was one of great
significance and trust. At any other time, on any other level, it was unclear. In this sense, the
action had become symbolic. The figures could be understood as archetypes. Ones which, for reasons
I cannot yet identify, I associate with the masculine.

***

In the threat of a loss of control, images had already flooded my mind. I remember as the
helicopters circled in the air above my house one evening in August. I had no idea why it was
happening, but this circling was incessant, the noise repeatedly coming close and fading away,
swelling and receding, but never quite out of my consciousness. It always gives me a slight sense
of unease, the idea of something being under surveillance, coupled with the notion that something
might be wrong. Why this surveillance from such a great height? It is a safe distance for the one
who watches. Then I remembered the destruction that had taken place, just minutes away from my home.
The aerial images of buildings and cars set alight, and rioters surging through the streets, anonymous
from this point of view. London's Burning.

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Truing and Balancing 2013-07-29

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Ghillie Suit 2013-07-03

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LSK 2013-07-02

LSK

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Double Dusch 2013-05-18

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stock car 2013-05-06

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trophies 2012-12-05

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JC Lincoln Most Improved 2012-11-05

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Houdini 2012-11-01

Houdini

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Nascar Chassis 2012-10-20

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Simulator 2012-10-20

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Sprint Car 2012-10-20

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body parts 2012-10-07

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A-frame 2012-10-07

A-frame

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ATR Polaris roll-cage 2012-10-07

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aluminium tube structure 2012-08-30

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Mercedes Frankfurt 2012-08-30

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trophy car 2012-08-30

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agility kit 2012-08-30

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Mercedes 190 RM1 V8 JUDD 2012-08-26

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Drag Edition Modified 2012-08-26

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car stereo 2012-08-26

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athletics 2012-08-25

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olympia stadium 2012-08-25

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arena 2012-08-25

arena

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winners 2012-08-25

winners

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USSR 1980 gold medal winners 2012-08-25

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podium 2012-08-25

podium

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lis hartel 1952 2012-08-25

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3D 2012-08-25

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giant pumpkin winners 2012-08-12

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MC-ONE-Mirage-IIIC-decal 2012-08-09

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will win 2012-07-15

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tag-team katalog 2012-03-19

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Installation for me is the staging of an arena; a temporal place, where there is the suggestion of narrative, but without the acting out or realisation of it. A tension or awkwardness is arrived at through the procedure. There can be an ambiguity of state; between definitives is where I find space for the work. I construct exhibition components like film or theatre scenery; with a facade of functionality. I am interested in light constructions, that can reflect the temporal and theatrical nature of an exhibition, mobility rather than permanence can be implied. A crude and provisional construction will be revealed in places; I am curious to make components that are ill fitting or dysfunctional. I want to create gaps that can be entries into the work. A gap is a hole, the place of desire; a sense of incompleteness in ourselves, we perpetually seek fulfilment, to be whole. Fantasy is continually renewed, we return again and again to the same place. For me this is also a metaphor for the creative process: the continual making and unmaking of work, the building of ideas and their subsequent deconstruction and the need build new again.

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adidasleosforusa 2011-11-16