UnRavelling
Video, Human figure, 11:44
"Moving back and forth between the intimate scale of hand-stitching into fabric and paper, and working to actual scale, encompassing the world and the whole body; I map and remap, trace and retrace my steps around New York City.
It begins with a simple daily practice – recording every path I walk and each bus, subway and taxi taken over 35 days, and stitching these into a handkerchief map of 1836 New York City. Explorations by design and chance see this develop into a multifaceted mapping project. The thread and handkerchief are replaced by 410 feet of rope and the streets, where I map to scale in a Sisyphean process of rolling and unravelling; crossing media, scale, time, continents and town."
With my latest work, I began by recording, in a form of shorthand notation, my daily traversing around New York City. I then stitched the paths and lines of my travels into paper using my notation and memory as a guide, retracing the steps with my hand, needle and thread. For me the work explores a fascinating sense of scale in relation to time and space, where the stitched maps are miniatures of the real world, yet the time taken to stitch them is equal to the time taken to walk them. My curiosity for such workings of scale led me to the streets and industrial spaces of Brooklyn with a large bundle of rope – to walk and lay down the map lines in real space. The resulting work is this, my multichannel video piece titled "UnRavelling". This process reflects my intrigue not only for traversing between scale but also different media, and through this encumbered negotiation of physical space, I reveal something of the inner spaces traveled, capturing the Sisyphean nature of the repetitive, laborious processes I often come to engage with as an artist.
for the purposes of uploading the video to vimeo i have placed the 2 channels in the one screen. these would normally play on 2 screens.
It begins with a simple daily practice – recording every path I walk and each bus, subway and taxi taken over 35 days, and stitching these into a handkerchief map of 1836 New York City. Explorations by design and chance see this develop into a multifaceted mapping project. The thread and handkerchief are replaced by 410 feet of rope and the streets, where I map to scale in a Sisyphean process of rolling and unravelling; crossing media, scale, time, continents and town."
With my latest work, I began by recording, in a form of shorthand notation, my daily traversing around New York City. I then stitched the paths and lines of my travels into paper using my notation and memory as a guide, retracing the steps with my hand, needle and thread. For me the work explores a fascinating sense of scale in relation to time and space, where the stitched maps are miniatures of the real world, yet the time taken to stitch them is equal to the time taken to walk them. My curiosity for such workings of scale led me to the streets and industrial spaces of Brooklyn with a large bundle of rope – to walk and lay down the map lines in real space. The resulting work is this, my multichannel video piece titled "UnRavelling". This process reflects my intrigue not only for traversing between scale but also different media, and through this encumbered negotiation of physical space, I reveal something of the inner spaces traveled, capturing the Sisyphean nature of the repetitive, laborious processes I often come to engage with as an artist.
for the purposes of uploading the video to vimeo i have placed the 2 channels in the one screen. these would normally play on 2 screens.
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