Setting up Shop (2024)
Sator Print Workshop
Self-Generating Animation
Run-time: Endless
This animation captures the artist’s daily ritual of 'opening up shop' through performative acts like turning signs, arranging displays, and sweeping floors.
The scenes, captured via time-lapse, are configured in Isadora software, which allows the split screens to rearrange themselves in real-time. As the figure manipulates objects within the space, he co-creates the environment through both his actions and the framing generated by the software.
Each viewing offers a new arrangement, keeping the figure locked in an endless cycle of opening and closing the shop—a continuous loop, where the figure and the environment are in constant dialogue.
Deer Gate Website Gif. 2023
"While walking through a remote area in western Scotland, we came across a pair of wrought iron gates. The fences that once flanked them had long since rusted away, leaving the gates to stand alone, now merely a suggestion of a barrier as deer freely pass by.
In the workshop, an aluminium fly screen door serves as both boundary and entry. Visitors can choose to pass through the screen or step around it, this veiled threshold hinting at an invisible enclosure that can shift the space from workshop to stage."
Sign.2023
Projection loop
Lent Pannel 2.2m x .5m
The monkey design is based on the children’s toy “Barrel of Monkeys.” Its characteristic hooked arms enable modular assemblies, allowing it to attach to any projecting feature. This creates a continuous game of placement, animating the space.
Here, the monkey is depicted holding a shop sign, spinning between open and closed states.
"Delivery " features two independent monitors, each displaying a looped animation of a figure trying to push through a screen, unsuccessfully attempting to deliver a crate of unspecified produce. The monitors load at different speeds, causing the animations to drift out of sync and disrupting the soundtrack.
The sound recording captures the workshop's audible silence after hours. However, the monitors' small speakers fail to convey the full depth of the recording, producing only digital clicks and hisses. The sound cuts in and out, creating a machine-like breath.
Block Prints Sator Print (Oct/Dec23)
Create 3
Block print on paper 180 x 50cm
Deer gate
Block print on paper 180 x 50cm
While simply "turning up" and immersing oneself in workshop life was the starting point for this project, it was essential to produce printed objects that resonated with the studio's output. The act of creating under the public's gaze amplified the performative aspect of the production process.
The series of prints that emerged served a dual purpose: they acted as props in the theater of production and offer the possibility of becoming part of a growing archive of elements.
