This is Where I Stand.
Multimedia construction with video monitors
2012.
This installation shot is close to my final arrangement for this work. I have experimented with other elements such as wooden paddles leaning against the wall, on top of the structures themselves... It has been suggested, and I agree, that perhaps the space (and I mean the room as a whole including others work) is not big enough for a subsidiary work. Although I think that the paddles would be an effective work in their own right and do add to the thought of being stranded or an object that would help you (albeit not very well) if you were plunged into the sea. These pieces, along with my 'Unstacking Tiles' video piece I think will have to wait until I have a larger show of this work.
Giving the main structure and video piece more space will definitely focus attention on the piece, but also free up some thinking space between my work and others. Less is more sometimes.
Looking critically at this work, I think I could have pushed a bit more colour into some of the plainer structures. The later structures have slightly more about them colour wise/structural wise - but I suppose when one makes objects in a production line, they get better/ faster and more efficient. Although saying this, the concept initially was a person obsessively making floors and practicing how to stand on them when he needed them for real. Trial and error is part of it. The badly made floors are just as important as the well (or better!) made floors. I could have also sourced different casters for the work, size, colour. Maybe fixing huge casters to small floors or tiny casters to huge floors?
Ultimately the group of works are what they are. Each structure is the size it is, the colour it is, and has the surface it does - I never felt the need to change a surface or height, but made a large number and selected from them - it is after all an obsessive act - making.