Yesterday, during my great library scavange, I found a book whilst looking for one that was completely useless to me. Happy accidents eh? It was called 'Eclipse' by Annushka Shani and it's basically an accompaniment to the exhibition it's named after. It helped bring a lot of things to light - no pun intended- about the importance of not just focusing on the focal piece of your work, the context in which it is placed is just as vital and can in some ways be embedded with subtler messages than the image that is knowingly produced to grip you by the shoulders and not let go.
'They make works that cross borders into different realms, opening up the in-between spaces where shadows fall between visible and invisible, the image and its undoing, the mark and its erasure, the action and its trace.'
'Together the artists in Eclipse make works that allow us to linger in the enabling gaps, pauses and silences between things. They inhabit unclear shadow lands where things are veiled and fall out of view.'
Combine this with the aforementioned Vija Celmins inspired subtlety, I think i'll be getting back to what i really love and having the support of artists such as these to do so.
The book was ended with this very apt quote:
'Every something is an echo of nothing.'
- John Cage
richard dworsky - a morning with the roses
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