The Podomotist's Machine - dispositions / blueprints
Process-based, site-responsive project · begun by 2014 · unfinished
The Podomotist's Machine was conceived as an experimental sequence of works combining drawing, sculpture, performance, installation, painting, video and other forms. Each group of works was to develop over time in a particular location, using materials or ideas connected to the place, its inhabitants, owners or history. Some connections would be readily apparent, while others would emerge through the investigation of materials, meanings and associations.
Existing works could also be taken out of their original context and brought into new relationships. The project was intended to develop from one site to the next. The broader sequence was not completed; the first documented work took place in my London studio in 2014.
Dispositions / blueprints
Drawings and visual plans associated with the project's proposed structure.
Work #1 - London studio, Queensdown Road
London, 2014
Objects, prints, photographs and drawings were gathered and arranged on a white IKEA desk in my London studio. Each element had its own history and independent existence. By placing them together, I began to investigate relationships between their forms, materials, patterns, meanings and uses. The arrangement was both a temporary display and a way of thinking through possible connections.
Individual pieces
The original project included separate pages for the following pieces. Their documentation can be added to this archive as the remaining pages are migrated.
- radical existence
- paramount
- surface and lines
- parallel lines
- compatible adaption
Works on table
Photographic documentation of the arrangement in the studio.
