Malcolm

I got a box of screws for my present, which confused me until I decided that I would fulfill their purpose and screw them into things. This also allowed me to buy a cordless drill, a toy I haven't had since I left Canada. I wanted to use this red packing twine that everyone uses to do everything with here. I was toying around with the theme of progress, a natural enough obsession here, then hit on using the screws to write out the Chinese characters for progress, Jinbu. My friend Lucy helped with that since my calligraphy sucks.

I scrounged around the local scrap heap and found the fragment of the white door which, wonderfully, was square because that's how I saw it all, and it was a door, a nice border element and all that. I knew I wanted a grid of nine photos, with the twine leading off the door in each photo to the next, and I knew I wanted to use roads and walls. I happened upon the perfect place--a derelict site right by my development and did all the shots there over one day. I had to cobble together stuff, and other motifs, like the stairs overgrown with green, emerged then.

I had intended to use photoshop to make the grid, but then realized that I should install the photos and link them together with the twine. I printed them off and returned to the spot, to one of the wall locations, for the final shot.

































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