THE
CABINET OF DEFINITION : JOHNNYS’
HARDWARE AND DIY STORE
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This installation was part of the Deptford X fringe
exhibition for 2016. The installation concentrated on the idea of the ellipsis
as a symbol for what is missing. In this case, what is missing is definition,
all those meanings and explanations that we desperately need to complete our
improvement in the world. It also occurred to me that the shop was an ellipsis
equivalent symbol for all those things that that had to be done and were not
there, all those prospective customers and their anticipated practical problems
just as each individual tool or other item on the shelves represented all those
things that were undone and still to be done. My main interest is in painting
and what I love about it is the fact that whatever a person is seeing or
imagining when looking at a painting is not there. This show is an attempt at
exploring that idea in the physical world of a hardware shop. I would like to
thank Neville and everybody else associated with the shop for their help and
patience.
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Shadow
the extraordinary,
this
double bind
lost
in the shuffle.
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It
is a problem of image
and
appropriated fragments,
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this
capricious manifestation
in
a small town setting.
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On
a parallel path,
a
most radical
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and
resurgent influence
is
not for the first time
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a
deconstruction of an image.
It
is what is to be expected
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in
a state of mind
as
seen in depth.
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This
method of appropriation
this
playfullness and pleasure,
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this
wrong way of thinking,
has
wide circulation,
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straddles
the divide
Acutely
concious,
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the
standard bearer
for
the non-verbal grope
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creates
a compound predicament.
A
cue
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to
block the private sphere
now
rendered obsolete.
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In
this existentialist hangout
with
all the impossible answers
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and
the fear of nothing,
apart
from
painterly
carelessness.
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Here
a
hint of conviction
amongst
mixed
feelings
and
a need
for
creative room.
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This
preamble
hides
a
basic inclination
to
find a niche
somewhere.
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Now
the attentive have spoken
and
dictated parameters,
virtually
inclined towards
an
impersonal rendition.
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But
capture the imagination,
make
a
decisive change.
Free
the
blocked horizon.
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This
touchstone
leans
towards
a
tableau,
now
put into action,
despite
a
delicacy of fracture,
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a
dark revolution
and
an
overrated silence.
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LP2016
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