Batchen’s idea that space and time can be crossed by a shared tactile act, implies that sight and touch may become one.[1] Apply this idea to the experience of walking through a drawing [your touch shifts materials], seeing moments of construction through video projection [?If music were to be rendered as lines of reverb in a flat plane, this work would come close to what it would look like?[2], along with the potential to encounter similar drawings in the city [slowly disappearing under Melbourne foot traffic]. This project allows construction, alteration and disappearance to simultaneously occupy the same time and space. Real time, recorded time, and fragmented time collide in these simultaneous installations: Absence/presence replete open a dynamic temporal depth.

Footnotes:
1. Geoffrey Batchen, Artspace lecture series, 27 July, 2001
2. Tessa Giblin, gridlocked.org.nz

Photography by Christian Capurro