I made this work in response to a Ronnie van Hout work I saw a few years ago.
Being an artist and always creating artworks I consider my work is never fully resolved and because of this, it empowers me to explore even further. The reason why this work is 'neither here nor there' is because it still leaves a few questions begging to be answered - Is it resolved as it exists right now even though it admits its unresolved or is it simply unresolved as it states? Taking the fact that every second the molecules which make up the work are ever changing as it slowly decomposes over time, would suggest the work is right in saying it is forever unresolved. But any second one looks upon the work, could be taken as resolved?
There is the descision made by the individual viewers - one person could see it as a finished resolved artwork while another would not.
JacquesDerrida spoke about 'Trace' - Trace can be seen as an always contingent term for a "mark of the absence of a presence, an always-already absent present".
Martin Heidegger spoke about Rous rature: usually translated as 'under erasure', it involves the crossing out of a word within a text, but allowing it to remain legible and in place.
Sous rature has been described as the “typographical expression of deconstruction”
"The gesture of sous rature (putting under erasure) implies 'both this and that' as well as 'neither this nor that', undoing the opposition and the heirachy between the legible and the erased"
I feel this work sits within these realms.
