David Chatton Barker
Patterns of Light
-[composted version]-
This 16mm film work-the original of which can be viewed in all it's ethereal splendor in the 'Moving Image' section on this exhibition website or linked also beneath the film here-has been physically buried in compost for the past six months; David, it's creator, has dug it up and the result is available below.
David says of the films:
"I actually prefer it to original as it carries the title with much more meaning now
as well as going through an interesting alchemical composting process.."
"I actually prefer it to original as it carries the title with much more meaning now
as well as going through an interesting alchemical composting process.."
Other responses:
Glimpses, going gong gone. Subjectively suggestive of the search for meaning, those ever evasive moments of enlightenment, ultimate gnomic ignorance within understanding, the familiar being ever faint & ever fading, chaotic cerebral comprehension, an intricate interplay of light & darkness, fragmented memory flashes and elusive emotive encounters elapse...
A testament to the tragic accelerated degradation of the earth but also, as a great all consuming wild fire can allow for the introduction of new life into stagnanted land, destruction can indeed breed creation; demonstrative of the broad breath of work being done with and through plant material in the creative process' of exciting experimental artists such as Chatton Barker.
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Here are some images provided by the artist, the first of which shows discreetly the film reel peeping out of the compost to the right of the nettle patch, the second depicts the appropriately named 'avant garde[n]' in which the compost bound film fermented, and the third the film reel itself.
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Here are some images provided by the artist, the first of which shows discreetly the film reel peeping out of the compost to the right of the nettle patch, the second depicts the appropriately named 'avant garde[n]' in which the compost bound film fermented, and the third the film reel itself.
