teetotum

Dædalus

'squaring the circles'

Work seen as a tortuously circuitous exploration into: limits and boundaries, open-ended closed circuits, liminocentric structures, paradoxical containment, strange loops & tangled hierarchies, and the perplexing notion of complex simplicity.

At Fold, different parts of 2 previous work series will be conflated to create a new work. The image for the work is provided by a small piece of bubblewrap, which has been the subject of a close-up painting annually since 2004. The methodology of construction is provided by a series of 'analogue pixellated portraits', created as gridded small squares drawn directly onto gallery walls. For this incarnation, an image of a small portion of the bubblewrap will be deconstructed; by pixellation, reduction to 3 colours, and translation into a code before being transferred during an unseen nonstop endurance performance on to 10 thousand small squares of paper - squares 'hashed in' with pencils and chalk. The image will then be reconstructed, again as a nonstop durational action, square by square, by being fixed onto the gallery wall in the correct order, on the project Open Day.

Squaring the Circle relates to one of the three great problems of Classical Geometry from Antiquity - constructing a square whose area equals that of a given circle, using only a compass and straight edge. The problem was not rigorously proved impossible until 1882. The phrase has entered common usage as a metaphor for a hopeless or meaningless undertaking.

Residency Oct 2 3 4