Alice Scott: Site & Context & Place

Limbo

An uncertain period of awaiting a decision or resolution; an intermediate state or condition.

I feel lost

"It's a part of your life that's going to be tarnished" Mum 19:59/ Wednesday 3rd August

I feel like I'm out on a limbo

Like I'm waiting for something, something that I don't know

I'm waiting for the unknown, what does the unknown look like?

Is it clean and pure?

Is it dense and dirty?

Personally, I relate the unknown to a blank piece of white paper.

I think of it's purity, it's openness to change and possibilities.

A blank piece of white paper has so many possibilities.

It can be the start of a brilliant idea.

A heart filled letter.

I feel like a blank piece of white paper gets us back to basics.

To the start.

Where we belong.

A blank piece of paper doesn't hold many memories.

Many feelings.

It's a beginning.

A fresh start.

Freshly made but easily dirtied.

A blank piece of white paper holds power.

Possibility.

Every sketchbook I've owned, once started out as a blank piece of white paper.

Now.

I've nurtured it into something my own.

Something that now has a hold on me.

Something that now carries my past.

"Things are in motion, unfortunately things take time" Dad 21:17/ Wednesday 3rd August

"She painted a really bleak picture" Dad 21:31/ Wednesday 3rd August

A blank piece of white paper can be positioned at the start of a book or the end of a book.

Therefore it's represents both sides.

Beginning and End.

Which puts me on edge

Things can go either way.

It puts me bang in the middle.

It puts me in limbo.

It makes me walk a tight rope.

Able to fall any second.

Things aren't certain.

Or set in stone.

I don't know what to feel anymore.

It's the

'The Unknown Life'

A blank piece of white paper is just a blank piece of white paper, it's up to you what meaning you give it.

You create the meaning, you are in charge of a blank piece of white paper.

Pinterest has been an excellent source of inspiration for me, within my Site & Place & Context I've been inspired by simplicity. Pieces of wok that don't have an upfront meaning. The meaning doesn't come from the piece of art, the meaning comes from the individual looking at the piece of art. This is important to me.

'Alan Reynolds'

'Recap “(de)Constructions” Group Exhibition at Backslash Gallery'

'Galleriurbane'

'Portals, first phase...the journey of a thousand miles begins with the first steps...time to take them, let us adorn you for it! #beagoddess'

'Alan Reynolds'

'Lesley-Foxcroft'

'Jumpei Kinoshita'

'Loris Cecchini - Extruding Bodies - Gaps (books I), 2005 polyester, wall paint'

'And the night smells like snow. Walking home for a moment you almost believe you could start again. And an intense love rushes to your heart, and hope. It’s unendurable, unendurable. ― Franz Wright, closing lines to “Night Walk” from God’s Silence.'

'Wall mounted lighting fixture by PSLAB.'

'Herman de Vries: "Ruimtelijke toevals-structuur", 1965 (Rekonstruktion 2011–2014)'

'LFontana (1899 - 1968), Concetto spaziale, Attesa'

Moving

Within our process of moving, I was intrigued by the act of packing, securing away our possessions.

Wrapping them in another layer, no longer exposed and seen for what it is.

It's protected, for it's next shift.

I was wrapping objects, preparing them, taking them away from there usual space.

Waiting for it's transaction, into it's new unknown environment.

It may be the most expensive chair/ piece of furniture you own but it still it gets wrapped up in cheap newspaper, bubble wrap and string.

It's true self is hidden, it takes on a new identity, it may be down grading but it's a layer of protection.

Could this relate to us as well?

'Christo. Packed Arm Chair, 1965'

'Walead Besthy | FedEx® Large Kraft Box ©2005 FEDEX 330508 REV 10/05 SSCC, International Priority, Los Angeles–Brussels trk#865282057953, October 27–30, 2008, International Priority, Brussels–Los Angeles trk#866071746385, December 8–9, 2008 | 2008 | Laminated glass, FedEx shipping box, accrued FedEx shipping and tracking labels, silicone, metal, tape'