Loose Parts

Screen Loop, acrylic, pine and fly screen, 2017. [90 x 60cm approx]

After deconstructing the work from my show Material Figments, all that was left were these coloured beams of various lengths laying on my studio floor like a partial set of over-sized cuisenaire rods. In thinking about what to do with these loose parts I started moving them around and making new arrangements through drawing. I began to devise a line that would hang flat on the wall in snaking segments. Manipulating these segments into forms of rotational symmetry led to a closed shape that bends around itself.

I immediately recalled work I had made as an undergraduate inspired by the decorative screen door of the house I grew up in. I decided to use the fly screen knowing that where the material overlaps it interacts with itself creating beautiful shifting moiré patterns as you move around.

This prototype is a first experiment in (re)using fly screen, and another fascinating amalgamation of old work into new forms.

©ADG2017