Spoor

This work was originally shown within the context of a maze-like immersive installation consisting of two circular quarantined areas with outer and inner curtains suspended from filmreel-like structures linked by a small funnel-shaped corridor. One of these quarantined areas housed two1920’s cinema seats from which to view the film.
The work incorporates analogue and digital AV media, private archival material and found/resourced objects. Using irony and pathos, it explores the past, distance and connection whilst contemplating universal themes of transience, spectatorship/film, identity, legacy, memory and myth. Anecdote, the remains of my paternal Irish ancestral estate and my maternal Dutch grandfather’s recently revived 8mm films have facilitated a creative space for filmic posthumous discourse with people I never met, but who are undeniably inherent in me. The Cone motif, initially conceived as a viewing device, evolved into an effacing mask, narrowing perception, effecting an anonymous and absurd alter ego, 'Coneface', who has appeared in various milieus over the past year.