I have just come back from London after a long long day prancing about from one gallery to the next; but I have come back with enthusiasm stamina and lots of new and exciting ideas. As well as a fantastic essay bought from Camden Arts Centre – ‘A random dispersal of dust (mutely understood)’ By Sean Kaye and Jenny West. The excitement that I have for this I’m sure you will fully understand after knowing a bit more about my practise.
So I guess I should explain my practice as it stands at the moment.
Hmm..
Dust.
Dust an essence of our mortality.
Dust, made up of particles of hair, skin cells, paint, stone, mud, generally everything and anything.
I have a strange and obsessive fascination with this ephemeral material. It started with my compulsion to sweep up the floor in my studio, to collecting and archiving the dust that I swept up, to then freezing, crushing and compressing it.
Now I am making machines to do the compressing for me!
The dust, is compressed and kept together with sheer force, nothing is added (no binding material, no spray or resin or otherwise) it is pure, solid dust. This I feel only adds to the concept and is something that I am very strongly minded about. It is, I feel, an issue of authenticity.
So to be a bit more precise – By sweeping, crushing and compressing dust I have become obsessed with how to preserve and re-use it. This residue of others and the objects that others may encompass.
Dust being a natural essence of our lives and the world in which we live in, is mostly ignored or brushed away. By forcing the viewer to see this as a solidified object, it not only represents the passing of time but also our own and that of the planets being.
This is perhaps where I am going to leave it for now; and you will just have to wait till I reveal my newly formed ideas...
Though if you would like to see more of my work have a look at my other blog,
http://nataliakomis.wordpress.com/
