Venice Without A Guide X

These works explore the concept of being in two places at once via a consideration of the subject being both open and closed.

This piece is from a larger wall installation ‘Split’, made from hundreds of hand-cut aluminum foil cut-outs, placed at odds with one another, consciously breaks down the direct meaning located within the angle-bracket symbols whilst enjoying the oddity of disconnected reflections. The delicate postcard works – involving the seamless repositioning of 1960s’ images of Venice via a technique of intaglio – quietly turn the world upside down. Their plausible delivery via the postal system, a pile of discarded envelopes is visible in the corner, continues the dialogue of between external and internal forces.