Sequenced Scanned 16 & Super 8 mm Cine Frames Archive Printed onto French Canson Paper in editions of three.
Observation works are the result of manually filming a fixed point on a situation or phenomenon, frame by frame, at regular intervals over a period of time.
These photographed moments draw attention to an aggregate of discrete, impermanent, and in constant flux moments that form our everyday experience of reality.
The neo-Confucian concept of Li (流) holds that everything is patterned according to the order of flow, an idea that is at the root of contemporary system thinking: the understanding of parts in terms of their relationship to and expression of the whole.
Collaging these individual observed moments in a sequential order reveals a deeper order; the formation of a unified composition expressive of the whole.
Whereas the works are autopoietic, I am intrigued by my own intervention, which lies within the act of observation itself; the contemplative study alongside the aesthetic interplay of consciousness, perception and thought- meditative and mindful. Quantum Physics speaks of the observer effect, that observing a situation or phenomenon necessarily changes it, whilst a Buddhist concept holds that the mind cannot exist without external phenomena, nor can external phenomena exist without the mind.
