A State of Uncertainty (2020)

Installed at 56 Brook Street, London W1K 5NE for Mayfair Art Weekend
Video Projector, Black Back Projection Screen., Computer running custom software., Wood Framing

During  the 2020 lockdown, I started experimenting with 3d scans of classical and neo-classical scultpures at home. 

At the time, it wasn't clear when museums and galleries would re-open and we could see any of these forms again. I was thinking about how forms in our memories might fade with time and start to merge into one.

3d scans are a low-quality reproduction , compared to, for instance, the plaster casts at the V&A Museum, but they still convey much of the essence of the shapes, pose and emotional intention.

The animation is created by randomly  'scattering' a fixed number of points of light onto the surface of 3d scans.  

The animation happens when the points move from one scan to another, leaving a trail behind them. The movement becomes a choreography, with the points never fully allowed to settle in a single place. For me, this felt like the time we were livng through, things feeling like they were coming together into a familar form, before shooting off into a new direction.