Boundaries

Negative Lever II /  by Justin Harrison

Exploring the Negative Lever in the studio, using the card frame as a template I took the outline and had begun to explore it looking at the boundaries and boards it makes.

It gives me the opportunity to work inside and outside, across positive and negative. I was tempted to fill the entire frame in black but something stopped me, something about the quality of the line - the fading and incompleteness…

…and there’s that word again incompleteness, I’m beginning to look at Homi Bhabha again: ‘Translation and Displacement’ and ‘How newness enters the world’. Engaging with boundaries and boarders.

 

Minor Post: Boundaries /  by Justin Harrison

Boundaries and borders not just geographical but cultural, social, intellectual… how are they given, accepted, defined and disrupted?

 

Stuff /  by Justin Harrison

Been getting into this guy for a while - I’m taking note of what. I naturally look at and ma drawn to. Lots of outdoor living - forest skills. Exploration of the wilds.

It’s the land, the spaces that are unoccupied, borderless boundaryless. No buildings, no people, no structures.

I am naturally looking at outdoors videos. Crafting temporary shelters. Navigating. Falling down.

Removing ourselves from what has been given to us as dwelling.

Dwelling.

Navigation. Where there is no land or territory.

 

Rabbit Holes /  by Justin Harrison

In thinking and researching about ‘Belonging’, ‘Boundaries’, ‘Transformation’ ‘Formation’

I have been looking at Derrida a lot, his exploration of ‘Differance’ ‘Trace’ Deconstruction’, ‘Spectres’ and ‘Hauntology’. I have now discovered Homi Bhabha. I see similarities of thought and approach, descriptions and models. I don’t know either work well enough to specifically state what exact differences or similarities they share. However I do feel the readings I have already made around Derrida - help me to being to approach Bhaba’s work.

I am also aware that Bhaba criticises Derrida’s work in falling short and failing to address Ethnocentricity and yet…

I do find the exploration of Space more specifically the third space and linguistics very interesting and return to my own enquiries to the language of art, navigation of change and the liminal.

Translation, Afterlife, Ghosts.

It’s a Rabbit hole I fear to go down, the depth of both authors work feels beyond me.

Translating transformation by documenting change. Looking back at the afterlife.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVQcdbSV6OI

 

Boundaries /  by Justin Harrison

Boundaries
Given space to occupy
Set dwelling
Dry grass, deviod of life
Out of time
Breaking down
In passage