Looking at how human events are recorded through ephemeral actions. In this work, I investigated the way in which objects have witnessed events of a massive human scale, such as the Hiroshima bombing, recording the event in their distortion.
Drawings and watercolours of everyday domestic objects unearthed in the aftermath of the A-bomb: bowls, cups and sake jugs, distorted and broken through the shock of the blast and intense heat which reached 3,000 to 4,000 degrees Celsius over a couple of minutes. At 8.15 am on 6th August 1945 these items instantaneously changed from anodyne household objects to become witnesses of a world changing event. In some instances, through the intense heat, objects merged and became a hybrid of different objects.
These objects are drawn from different angles and the drawings are overlapped in an attempt to understand the historical event through a drawing process.
Exhibition:
The Fleeting, Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum and Art Centre, North Uist.
Ground temperature: 3000°c
series 2 - Installation: drawings and looped projection
North Uist, Scotland 2008
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