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Toni Warburton Template Panorama 2012 (day 8 of project) photo: William Seeto
Facebook comment: William Seeto posted an image of my work in process on Facebook and this lead me to think in the following way. I have edited
this further from my face book post in response to some “likes”
Eye of
Horus: Lost and Found
This is a changing wall situation so is not actually an installed
exhibition. Wiliam Seeto has made a
remarkable photographic image of a very provisional moment within a process of happening ( Sunday 4th March light shadow material
space). So an open-ended installing is happening but with no specific intention
to arrive at a consolidated moment of installation. Articulate has invited me
to work experimentally in the space for two weeks and to think about the
implications and modes of documentation.
My focus orientates within the more than four cardinal
points of 2D, 3D, thought, materiality, action, collaboration and participation,
geometric shapes, embodied line and the contours of vases and remembered terrains. On the basis of my interest in his scans of found objects and our ideas for a collaborative artist book
in progress, I have invited John von Sturmer to participate in this research.
He has created a self-documenting work of text and scans titled Reality
Check. And on Sunday he
installed a found tubular assemblage as a splayed tripod: a spirited threshold piece.
For the duration
of this situation at Articulate I have named my exploratory
process which retrieves and discards, convenes and disperses transmutes
and distils : Eye of Horus: Lost and Found. Perhaps
this documentation image of a template panorama, created by William Seeto has revealed
a work? What is a work? Is it a
form of stasis of an artist’s intervention that ís called completion? A stoppage that nonetheless
enters a new dynamic of being seen? The space may well be
emptied by the last day.
Toni Warburton 6th March 2012