Tilly Davies 1
'Still Moving'
Installation
June 2018
The image shown is a finalised installation incorporating the ideas taken from ‘Fabricated Stills Series’. I have used the next three slides to articulate this piece, taking a closer look at the compositional elements which make up the installation.
Using a selection of fabric and different treatments such as wood glue and resin I created an arrangement which within it holds a poetic concerned with space, form, weight, light, gravity, time and in all of this offers a moment for and of reflection.
I adorned the space using a variety of fabric in different states which utilise the light of the window and the surrounding structure to elicit a rooted, phenomenological experience in the environment. The work is activated by the presence of the viewer who is invited to move between the various pieces. Draped voile is used to soothe the light, frame the space and is roused by the surrounding movement with a quiet stir.
Each of the fabric pieces act in conversation as a contribution to the entire composition, working together to create a visual language. The individual treated fabric pieces slowly collapse and move between forms over time. Beginning in their placed positions they slowly retire over a matter of days into their resting form. These pieces display an innate condition of change and deterioration while encompassing a quiet acceptance of these inevitabilities.
Inspired by Zen Buddhist philosophy and phenomenology this work looks at concepts of the body, the human condition and time. Consequently, I created an installation to elicit experiences that speak of and to the physical bodies of the viewer. The treated fabric pieces explore the potential of transformation through a frozen moment. An arrested form serves as an echo of the past whilst expressing an absence within its transient nature; it is neither lost nor becoming. Rather, the pieces are focussed on the momentary, suspension. As a visual poetic they express a harmony of acceptance; of being.
'Still Moving'
Installation
June 2018
The image shown is a finalised installation incorporating the ideas taken from ‘Fabricated Stills Series’. I have used the next three slides to articulate this piece, taking a closer look at the compositional elements which make up the installation.
Using a selection of fabric and different treatments such as wood glue and resin I created an arrangement which within it holds a poetic concerned with space, form, weight, light, gravity, time and in all of this offers a moment for and of reflection.
I adorned the space using a variety of fabric in different states which utilise the light of the window and the surrounding structure to elicit a rooted, phenomenological experience in the environment. The work is activated by the presence of the viewer who is invited to move between the various pieces. Draped voile is used to soothe the light, frame the space and is roused by the surrounding movement with a quiet stir.
Each of the fabric pieces act in conversation as a contribution to the entire composition, working together to create a visual language. The individual treated fabric pieces slowly collapse and move between forms over time. Beginning in their placed positions they slowly retire over a matter of days into their resting form. These pieces display an innate condition of change and deterioration while encompassing a quiet acceptance of these inevitabilities.
Inspired by Zen Buddhist philosophy and phenomenology this work looks at concepts of the body, the human condition and time. Consequently, I created an installation to elicit experiences that speak of and to the physical bodies of the viewer. The treated fabric pieces explore the potential of transformation through a frozen moment. An arrested form serves as an echo of the past whilst expressing an absence within its transient nature; it is neither lost nor becoming. Rather, the pieces are focussed on the momentary, suspension. As a visual poetic they express a harmony of acceptance; of being.