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 Being Escapes Me (2011) Photographic print 42.6cm x 27cm Part of a series of photographic works to be included in a collaborative |
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Gail Flockhart
In 'Being Escapes Me' I explore the relationship between 'moving' (video) images and the 'static' (photographic) image, combining extended exposures from film with photographic images of myself. As an inhabitant and casual consumer of unfolding and enfolding space and time, I identify with the dualities which inform my particular view of the world; the internal vision of the director/character (or inhabitant) of the narrative, and the external gaze of the viewer (or consumer) of the image. I am interested in the edges of meaning, the boundaries between perception and reality, the material and the spiritual. I seek to reconcile the intractable conditions of human existence as one experience, perhaps a singularity of 'Being', through the creative process and products of my work. I therefore recognise a unifying truth in Gabriel Tarde's redemptive analogy where, "The task of perception entails pulverising the world, but also one of spiritualising its dust." [1] [1] Deleuze, G (2006) The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque, foreword and translation Conley T. New York: Continuum, p99 |
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