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Darren Marsh
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| “I like ambiguity in my work (in a playful sense). We are ambiguous creatures living in an ambiguous world (which are our realities?). By taking an ambiguous position, I'm not stating this is how it is or this is how you should read my work. I like there to be space for the imagination to play and explore — to run with the work. Maybe, this is where the real art takes place?” | |
We came from the Stars 30 pages; Dimensions 15cm x 15cm x 15cm, Unfolded 18cm x 18cm x 18cm. Polyhedron . Materials: Canon Chromalife 100+ Inkjet print on 120gsm paper; Archival PVA. Mapping images accredited to IAU and Sky & Telescope. Creative Commons By 3.0. Edited in Adobe Photoshop. Darren Marsh: “’We came from the Stars’ is a star shaped polyhedron constructed from a star chart mapped across 30 individual pages. Each page has been duplex printed then folded into an origami boat which may be opened and read. Collectively all pages can be opened to form a second celestial object. "Stars are the birthplace of nearly every known element in the universe and essential to all life on earth. Most of the elements in our bodies were formed in stars over the course of billions of years. “The idea we came from the stars is also rooted in many human cultures and civilisations. At different places and at different times humans have divided and organised celestial objects to create their own unique constellation cultures. Stories once held in the sky, inspired by myth, legend and cultural belief. “Celestial wayfaring or steering by the stars is a method of determining one’s position on earth based on observations of astronomical bodies in the night sky. Fifty-eight stars across thirty-eight constellations hold a special status in the field of celestial navigation; stars that once guided us safely across earth’s oceans and seas, predicted events such as seasons and tides and connected us with the world around us. “Books and stars both tell their stories. We are all looking at the same sky — just with different filters." |
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weneverstoodapart 3 bookworks each 16.8cm x 28.4cm. Each bookwork an 8 page bound concertina. Unfolds in spreads and can be read as one continuous piece. Archival digital print on 280gsm Titanium Lustre silver resin coated paper. Archival linen hinges Mirri Blanco Pearl 220gsm covers. Blue and gold inked paper cover labels. Blue and gold inked paper banderole. All content, design and production by Darren Marsh. Includes Certificate of Authenticity signed and numbered by artist. Darren Marsh: "weneverstoodapart is a visual poem about our relationship with other beings, both human and non-human. We have constructed our worlds with humans as the dominant or central character, and so find ourselves in an ecological and political era which mirrors the impact this brings to all life and the planet. “A civilisation that chooses to drive ecological change, while refusing to acknowledge its own interdependence and interconnectedness, psychologically disconnects and isolates itself from itself and the entire biosphere. To act as if the world beyond humans is composed of "things" for human use is a catastrophic assault on the diversity, complexity, abundance, and beauty of life. We are entangled with other beings we cannot live without.” Book 1 - A traumatic loss of coordinates
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Flös Folded 10.5cm x 5.2cm x 3cm (4 x 2"); Unfolded 32cm x 32cm x 5.2cm. Canon Chromalife inkjet print on 70gsm Awagami Inbe and 75gsm Permalife 25% Cotton. Origami folds (1 folded permutation, each unique). Printed slip case on 90gsm Archival Trace. Includes proof certificate with edition number and artist signature. Artist statement: '"Flös' is a meditation on a life lived within a mesh of entangled relationships. A world made up of complex patterns. Patterns beyond our known patterns connecting in unknown ways. "In this world nothing makes itself, and nothing exists by itself. Beings fold with other beings and things fold with other things. Human and non-human, living and nonliving become with each other to bring about new possibilities of being otherwise." We must reevaluate our entrenched ideas and preconceived notions. (SOLD/Out of Print) |
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ISBN 9787909388062 Dimensions 328cm x 29.7cm; 16 page concertina fold. Unfolds in spreads and can be read as one continuous piece. Archival digital print on 70gsm Japanese Kozo paper. Archival digital printed Kozo paper covers. Printed paper banderole with title. Content, design and production by Darren Marsh. Includes Certificate of Authenticity with edition number and artist signature. Darren Marsh: "We code and re-code our worlds to create a sense of order and meaning from within a perceived chaos. Information is not meaning. Neither is information something that just exists out there in the world. It is a construct carried by physical markers and as such can be hacked into variable combinations. “This project began with the proposition of creating a book using its own ISBN as a start point. An ISBN is an international machine readable code used to recognize and identify the product form of books. It contains information pertaining to language, publisher and publication, but not the work inside. So, what happens when the systems <ProductIdentifier> the ISBN becomes the content? How is it re-coded? And how is it re-read?" |
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