Time-lapse
The cutting of the Sun bed
As a curious visitor approaches the table, a motion sensor activates. An audio signal indicates that you are now witnessing the emergence of an art object, and your presence has triggered the event.
Clamped to the table are two transducers. Emanating from them, through the table, is an audio recording recounting a field trip to France to visit a beekeeper and his hives.
On the table, a sheet of linoleum is laid out, marked with a traced drawing of the woven latticework of a PVC sunbed. The tools needed to begin the work are at hand.
As you listen to the sound of the beekeeper’s smoker gently calming the bees, along with his instructions to the visiting recordist on where best to place the microphone, a distance is created between the deserted workspace and the hives in France. This disconnection between the workshop and the hives in France seeks to open a space for the presence absents of the artist and the visitor to inhabit.
Several prints of the Sun bed, captured in its folded state, are left drying against the workshop walls, still held in their wooden registration frames. As the afternoon sun moves across the floor, it briefly illuminates the translucent paper, transforming the workshop into an animated stage.
