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Samantha Clark
Last year I did a residency at the IAAB, an international artists exchange programme in Basel, Switzerland.
I took my interest in Alpine Romanticism a bit literally by coming down with pneumonia and spending most of the time weakly convalescing instead of tramping about the Alps having elevated thoughts about the Sublime. When I got out of hospital I filled a room with clouds so I could pretend to walk among them without having to climb a mountain. Then I filled the place with a gently lapping ocean swell of plastic dustsheet so, like Friedrich’s monk, I could stare dreamily at the horizon, from my convalescent bed. This year, thankfully back to health, I’ve been artist-in-residence at Wysing Arts, Cambridgeshire, where instead of collaborating with some high-flying scientist as intended, I’ve been thinking about something scientists pretended into existence – the Subtle Ether. “We know whence comes our belief in the ether. If it takes several years for light to arrive to us from a removed star, it is no longer upon the star nor is it upon the earth; it must be sustained somewhere, and supported, so to speak, by some material.” Poincaré, 1900 It’s the stuff between things, explaining effects at a distance, what the light from distant stars...
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