Photo by Chris Bishop 
Photo by Chris Bishop 
Photo by Chris Bishop 
Oxford Scientific Film Commission | Rabbitears (1991) |
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Orchard Gallery, Derry, Northern Ireland I had photographs taken of my baby son, Ezra, playing with two dead rabbits. He interacted with ease and delight. I asked Oxford Scientific Films to photograph a drop of water falling into and extinguishing a flame with the steam and smoke as obvious, intrinsic parts of the transformation. I was invited to be part of an exhibition Available Resources in Derry, Northern Ireland and I chose to make a work in a disused funeral parlour. I sat with Ezra in the corner of the space with a sheet of glass diagonally in front and enclosing. Speaking and singing to Ezra, I slowly painted the glass white to enable the projection of the rabbit and candle images to become clearer and clearer. “It was an intelligent and poetic work, coping well with the notion of sensual replacement - present replaced by past, seeing replaced by hearing, transparent surface (the glass) being made opaque and then ‘revealing’ again what was underneath by means of projected transparencies (the slides). The various parts of the work - the composition (opposition of corner and flat wall, light and darkness), the technique (melting together and overlaying of images) - place this performance firmly into the mainstream of research into visual culture.” Available Resources catalogue. |
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