Time-lapse
The cutting of the Sun bed
Sator Print Siena April/May 24
Table 2024 Installation
On approach, a motion sensor triggers. Two transducers, clamped to the table, play a field recording from a visit to a French apiary.
On the table lies a sheet of linoleum traced with the woven lattice of a PVC sunbed; the tools are laid out, ready to begin.
On the soundtrack, the smoker’s bellows register as short, slightly mechanical breaths alongside the beekeeper’s guidance on mic placement. The hives are tended, the bees are busy, and the table is set for work. The artist is elsewhere.
Several prints of the sunbed, shown folded, stand drying against the walls, still held in their wooden registration frames. As the afternoon light slips across the floor, it suddenly strikes the wall behind a sheet; for a moment the translucent paper is backlit, the image seeming to hang in its own glow—a brief, separate presence—then it collapses back into the paper.
