Punctum | Part II
This piece was created by collecting discarded portraits and printing them onto tracing paper. I then hand stitched cogs onto the faces and encased them into clock faces. The use of tracing paper in this piece was to display the fading motions of the people in focus’s identities and memories; just as their lives have ended, so are the memories of them disappearing. The placing of the images inside a clock face was an act of encasement and objectification. This was to represent the objectification of the body after death and the way we encase memories and keep them close to preserve the essence of the deceased. The use of an object that is worn close to the body, a clock face, was to bring a more personal and sacred feeling to the images. Similarly to the book Punctum, Part III this represents the state of deterioration of the bodies of the people in focus. The bubble like appearance of the clock faces represents the idea of ‘being in a bubble’, how people as machines are programmed to work and function in everyday life. They are enveloped by the rules and regulations of life, looking out but not seeing what is actually happening to them. This is placing the viewer in control; looking into the machine people encased in the lies and notions of others.
size 3cm x 4cm, original clock face, tracing paper and clock cogs
size 3cm x 4cm, original clock face, tracing paper and clock cogs
size 4cm x 4.5cm, original clock face, tracing paper and clock cogs
size 4.5cm x 5cm, original clock face, tracing paper and clock cogs
size 4cm x 4.5cm, original clock face, tracing paper and clock cogs