September - August 2024
Well Projects, Margate
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Photography by Ollie Harrop
Fantasy Figurine III, 2024. Marble mosaic on board. 100 x 70cm
Time Compression 1, 2024. Engraved cardboard, aluminium v slot. 33 x 43cm
Time Compression 2, 2024. Engraved cardboard, aluminium v slot. 33 x 43cm
Time Compression 3, 2024. Engraved cardboard, aluminium v slot. 33 x 43cm
Time Compression 4, 2024. Engraved cardboard, aluminium v slot. 33 x 43cm
That’s the world I’m going to send you to!, 2024, 3D printer, lime mortar, aluminium v slot cardboard, 3D printed furniture, light. 25 x 27 x 360cm
Perfect Time Compression, 2024. Stones, recycled artworks, lime mortar, marble mosaic aluminium v slot, cardboard, 3D printed furniture, light. 100 x 100 x 60cm
Supplementary Text
Notified through instant messaging apps, my friends head down to Margate for the opening of the exhibition. It opens on the same day as the Margate Soul Weekend. Mods hide precise haircuts under open faced helmets and ride vintage Vespas past the towns numerous antique stores. I check my train ticket app, show my QR code to the scanners on the platform, beep myself onto the train and scroll down to the coast.
On the train I message my friends through various platforms, we are all excited for a part kitsch part art weekender. One friend can’t make it because they’re on a medieval themed fantasy LARP organised through Discord. Another can’t make it because they’re dishing out cyber sigilism tattoos in Y2K placements (Summer is a tough season for a tattoo artist.) During conversation with a friend on the train before me, they share a 3D render of a 2004 BMW compact wearing a bodykit inspired by the 90s Escort Cosworth. We agree that the Escort Cosworth wore it better.
I chat to the gallery- last night De la Soul played at Dreamland/on Wednesday I’ll start an install of another 1st Century Roman style black and white mosaic in a big house in Amersham/the weekend promises to be good/our experience of time is really confusing.
I write this from my sofa the day before the exhibition. The text isn’t exactly refined but it’s mainly true and gets to the point. My partner is watching a period drama- Marie Antoinette. A copy of Dominic Pettmans Infinite Distraction lies unread next to Ted Chiangs’ Stories of Your Life and Others.
“That’s the world I’m going to send you to!” is a quote from Ultimecia, the main antagonist in Final Fantasy VIII, who threatens to compress all of time and space into a single moment.