Wandering, Wondering

Installation text, floor plan sketch and series of photographic installations 4 x 6

presented as part of an exhibition A Thing To Go To at the Old Ambulance Depot Gallery, Edinburgh 03-05/05/2013

The exhibition A Thing To Go To was curated to explore process-based approaches to making, where the situation of the artworks border-lined an ambiguous relationship between performance, happening and aftermath.

Beside the text piece was fixed a small diagram-sketch of the gallery mapping out a scattering of X marks referring to the placement of the photographs (i.e. pockets of wondering) about the room.

"Stand directly beneath a horizontal mirror looking up. Each way you tilt your head you will find your reflection's head directly opposite. When you point toward a wall in the room your reflection points toward that same wall.

But deviate from that axis perpendicular to the mirror even a little and things go askew. Remember: your image has reversed along the axis at right angles to the mirror. Try pointing directly at the mirror, such that your fingertip is now directed up. Your reflection is now pointing at you – not up, like your finger, but down."

Like islands of thought, these pockets of wondering would prod the unsuspecting viewer into becoming aware of their gravitational self every so often when wandering about the exhibition.