University Campus Suffolk

Work in progress

Work in progress.

THE MASKING PUMP ENGINE

The design of the masking pump engine is quite a simple one. It is a basic camshaft piston with 2 pistons connected to one cam. The Pistons will turn up and down forcing air to go in and out through designed holes like valves that let air flow in and out in only one direction, that air then will be pumped into a liquid solution of soap, which then will begin to bubble and foam. The only way for the air is to escape through the rest of the tubes taking the bubbles and foam with them, this will then be carried up the tube into the mask and into the subject’s mouth, then this will travel down to the stomach in which the expansion can take place. the subject then will have tears in the stomach lining in which the fluids can then escape.



THE AMBIENCE IF THE FACTROY

The overall feeling I want to create in the factory or my installation is one of discomfort or amazement. I want there to be sounds of pure terror. I want the scene to look like this in my head. I want the pumping engine to be turning the cables to be driving back and forth like octopus tentacles steam and smoke to be squirting out of the engine exhausts the grinding and squeaking of the metal the bubbles splashing on the floor to be in total darkness except for a few spotlights illuminating the machine and the subject, the smell of the soap the disinfectant the smell of the rusty metal electric in the air. I want this to be as real as I can make it.



THE HUMAN SUBJECT

The narrative of the story of the factory is still unclear to me. I do not know where the subjects were taken from or what happens to them in the end of the factory process, but I would like to leave that open to interpretation or not to have any interpretation, but only what is clear to see. The subjects go through extreme transformation through the purging system, but it is forced purging from the original sculptures, whether purging came from the mouth, this purging is going to come from the stomach. The fluids will be pumped in through the mouth and force out through the stomach instead of being pumped from the reverse and coming out through the mouth. I want this to show the stubbornness of man to forgive and forget and his inability to say sorry. This is me forcing man to admit its faults, the expansion is a symbolic of bubbles. The subjects experience extreme expansion in their cranial and in their abdomen area. I want the factory to look like a scene from hell.