Excess.

Telephone Exchanges
Non places
Communications
Excess.

'This need to give a meaning to the present if not the past, is the price we pay for over abundance of events corresponding to a situation we could call supermodern to express its essential quality: EXCESS'


Marc Auge- sees the world in terms of supermodernity, the world being filled with an abundance of events demanding that each of us individually INTERPRET it all.

This all got me thinking; telephone exchanges, developed as was necessary for the abundance of increasing phone calls, an excessive increase, which as my images in the last post show, an absolute excess of machinery (though very visually interesting).

Jump from hand to machine; hand operated calls to 'strowgers' and 'crossbar systems'.

So Lazer cutting- Hundreds of circles/squares representative of the Telephone exchanges, and maybe even non places

Plaster pieces- Reflecting the handmade, the condensed nature of the telephone equipment...

Both reflect the simple visuals of the telephone exchanges and generic non-places that we see today, so I want to continue developing these two processes, thinking of possible interactions with them, layering, bundling, stitching, hanging, using, placing....

Big sheets of cut out pieces, threading wires through? Plain basic colours...

Making rows of boxes and holes, to place pieces together, 'interpreting' the excess...

Plaster , stitch, laser, fabric, perspex?