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INTERIM SHOW EXHBITION - ''STATIC (ISTIC)'

The statistics that redefine our environmental destruction are shocking and undermined by the governments static action. This action (or lack of) is in the interest of corporate economic statistics and 'advancement'. My static wall sculpture/intervention using found objects and materials echoes a grid, often used in statistical mapping and recording. The wash of film redefines this grid to realise the reality of human interaction within the environment and appreciation. An interaction undefinable through statistics and easily lost through static of action and public mobilisation. The films unruled chronology is a further mark of this unpredictable landscape of reality masked in statistics. Re-emergence of human form within the landscapes reiterates the disconnection suffered in present day.

 The aim of this film was to distract myself from the overwhelming pressures that research brings to this course, i felt myself getting lost within my research and what i was trying to convey within my practise. The context and constant explaining of works and the direction i was heading within my work. So to focus purely on a piece in which i could just take myself out into the enviornment and create interventions with what i could find was a blessing. Although when looking over the work i produced the inevitability of finding some form of context was writhe. \The above statement is what i wrote from research further into the statistics of local areas and the destruction that it is having on local environments.




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