The Accidental Exhibits
A new project is always exciting and the seductive moment of beginning the sublime. Visiting a ‘newly-demolished’ construction site for a collaborative project, I began poking around and found a treasure trove of my own.
The art of building is timeless. Building is the inescapable reality of urban redevelopment.
There is dismantling, which is when some parts are carefully removed from a portion of the building to remain. And there is demolition, where the part of the structure is completely removed.
The Metal Crawlies
Objects without their counterparts appear sometimes very mystical, appear lost to our eyes, sometimes they become our muse. The muse we try and help belong. These objects are identified with their more common counterparts. And in their specific surroundings. When they are detached or if their surrounding space changes, these objects become discernible on their own as well. The meaning of this mystical object now involves its current context. So in that space and time, these objects appear as works that could be considered as Visual Arts. However, the picture’s meaning still cannot be reduced to a pictorial function.
The Metal Crawlies II
The Door to the Sky
I look at these sites as a deliberate or accidental configuration or spatial arrangements in publicly accessible spaces, which serve the purpose of exhibiting elsewhere.
This quote by Pamela Howard becomes very relevant…
Leaves with their dry whisperings
Bring so many thoughts
And so many memories,
And so much music
An Audience for the Destruction
While walking, I saw rows of similar chairs lined up. They had a sense of expectancy as though they were waiting for something to happen in front of them. If one has to find a resonance in these chairs, one has to observe the fingermarks or stains on them. This is a reverse kind of a theatre where the performers are static accidental exhibits and the spectators are the moving performers.
The Paparazzi is here!
These objects, however an end in themselves, can be considered research materials for potential works of incredible imagination and freedom that takes the creator and viewer into uncharted territories.
The photographs become a collector of memories.
