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installation view
Staring Machine, 2007-9
Staring Machine, 2007-9 detail
3 machines
inside bronze
inside wood
inside bronze
sketch1
sketch2
sketch3
wood
![images 1-3: Staring Machine, [cast bronze, height 14’Äù], 2006/9
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Staring Machine was a project that I began in wood, ceramic and bronze. I wanted to explore the idea of making a machine that enabled one to stare without looking at anything. I was curious about the idea of experiencing the inside of a material without the use of full sight. Ideally the project would continue to explore materials in a range of weights, densities, scales and sensory qualities.
At around this time, the artist Francois Morelli was working with recycled belts to make these strange and beautiful hand puppets with which he would create entirely blind drawings. The heaviness and stiffness of the material, its restriction on his movement and the heightening of his senses to these things without the use of his sight, was something that I was unable to stop thinking about. Also at this time, the artist Raphaelle de Groot was undertaking a series of extraordinary installation performance works that compelled me to think about my own relationship to material as a performer.](StaringMachine_files/shapeimage_1.png)
