Fake Vanta Black on Curators Back, 2016

secret artist homemade vanta black paint, plaster, pins, glue

Dimensions Variable 

Surrey NanoSystems developed Vantablack for controlling unwanted light in scientific, space & defence instruments. Its original applications included telescope components, optical sensors, calibration systems & electro-optical imaging and target-acquisition equipment. The company’s launch announcement, published 17 July 2014, already stated:  

We are now scaling up production to meet the requirements of our first customers in the defence and space sectors.

To make the shadow as black as possible, Géricault used quantities of bitumen to give him the shimmering gloom he sought.

Le bitume utilisé pour assombrir les tons menace aujourd’hui de manger toutes les couleurs.

 

Private View Yin Yang Plinth, 2016

 

wood, special paint, seating arrangement, glasses (full/empty)

Dimensions Variable

Motto Paintings (ILOVEDELICATEPOLICEMENFIREEXTINGUISHERREADPRESTISSIMO), 2016

car vinyl wrap, industrial rubber, mdf

175 cm by 121 cm

Eyelashes On Dual Outlets, 2016

 

As part of the show SLOW CASTE, I read the first 6 poems I had written at that point, ever. I read them with one set of eyelashes in my mouth, reading 3 times a day during the exhibition being open. I attempted to 'ladder' the eyelashes as far up the wall as physically possible. Below are the poems in order that they were read. During the duration of the reading, I was also cooking lower denominations in seed oil in a pan being observed by an official numismatist. 

POEMS FOR DUAL OUTLETS (2015/6)

(1)

I was asleep  or in                                               

contempt   for  nature                           

eviscerated chicken some   

twenty-versions had                    

the colours          

dreadful given                

way to the poor who have                          

without colours eaten                                                              

arms akimbo do not interrupt                                              

intrusive for euphony

(2)

A hand helps the migrating motor complex 

lift flecks of parsley  

garlic butter bits 

of chopped red pepper  

parboiled tomatoes squeezed into 

a little bolus 

down with garnish 

and between the patricians  

and stomach  

a fitting comestible   

mass feeling potential life  

versus 

(3)

Thrown from roof 

servers, cables hard-drives     

piezoelectric sensors    

screens laser-sintered polyester 

perforated aluminium     

auf den ersten blick

notice a single fuck 

in a pound of chrome alum    

here's what you could have won:     

classic gas with easy valour

the presence of police or armed forces 

impinges on a situation  

said orthodox economist      

so gentle be the baton 

calm be the kettle  

and every element  

respond benignly  

to our desires

(4)

Will do for        

workable antinomy          

new decimal         

impressed on condition of intense

purified awareness of  young men

and the state of their                                                          

coherence is to     

flatteringly make distinct                                             

in looking concentratedly                                           

despite throbbing uncertainty                                        

in prospect of being just right relief           

to the social kernel                                    

of abolition patter                                        

the balance   

looks like austerity

(5)

'They'll end up in the food processor, eventually'   

when asked a revelation intended   

we said hold up   

evicted paving slab painted 

purple broken Bouygues UK    

outside the fire assembly    

i cut in their lino three words     

SUMMER  OPENING  TIMES

(6)

Did you known?       

homeless in Lille David was a                                                         

living breathing hard head 

the eyes that span 

already tired already sorry 

by the worst    

and I would take                                               

my party of chicken in                    

champagne sauce       

out on the arterial roads  

at night free and dignified  like fools 

"Freddy," the guard here,     

endlessly pissing on private walls

Geruch Stool Corner, 2016

 

Petroleum jelly, Incense

Dimensions Variable

Motto Paintings (ILOVETOLOVETOHIDEBLUEBATONSFORREDBOYSYOURUNREADKINGSAVED), 2016

 

car vinyl wrap, industrial rubber, mdf

175 cm by 121 cm

Motto Paintings (MOLASSESACROSSHUMANITYLILACPOLICEMOAN), 2016

 

car vinyl wrap, industrial rubber, mdf

175 cm by 121 cm