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To alter the plains of perception I ironed my babies face" was to make real what I have been painting and drawing. The imagery seen in both strongly relates to the composed elements in this project. (see evolution)
The concept was to fuse and contort visual and literal understanding. Conventional modes of art decoration and décor functionality are used as a framework for the installations composition. Visually we understand and accept as decoration, a floor mat underneath a table with a vase or sculpture on top and hanging from the wall a framed picture. The installations elements then twist and extend themselves on fore mentioned principles, the truck which can been seen as the sculpture takes on non practical proportions, the vase normally holding flowers is filled with oil, a computer hard drive and the end of a fishing rod. The table has been covered altar like and the floor mat serves as a boundary in a gallery setting. A toilet seat has replaced the framed picture and instead of a painting cow in a field, a real piece of meat in it’s packaging is seen. Light would normally shine from an electrical light source altering color, in the installations case light is poured from a watering can and changes everything from monochromatic white to pattern filled high color. The red wool thread has two exiting points: 1; The red wool thread leaves the fishing rod reel and enters the meat on the wall (the viewer might imagine that the line has not been broken, from one end of the fishing pole to the other) it then exits the center of the hard drive and continues back into the end of the fishing rod placed in the vase, the thread then projects outward and drops to the iron on the floor, it enters where water is poured into a steam iron, again the viewer might imagine that the line has not been broken as it exits one of the irons steam holes, from there it projects upwards towards the babies face. 2; the red wool thread exits the watering can hung from the ceiling. The watering can hangs tilted with the thread leaving its spout mimicking water and serving as a boundary line between color and white.
The baby doll hangs from the ceiling at an average eye level looking in on the scene, its face has been removed revealing its emptiness, around the cut out is glued the same wool red thread that spouts from the watering can. The thread continues outward from the cutout and enters into one of the steam holes of the iron, loosely suggesting a loss of identity or a lack of brain activity as a result of modernity. Other elements of the piece take on higher meaning and can probe questions about society but this is not the function of the piece. While the piece fictitiously alludes to a higher meaning it also fails to give, the viewer is left pondering.
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