REBECCA CARTER
Statement
I am an explorer of the fluid expanse interpenetrating the non-local spaces of self and world. Sometimes this exploration is a form of play science. I set up experiments and gather data. The catcam started with the question: What does the world look like to a cat? I attached surveillance cameras to my cat’s heads. The results reveal digital glitches in the wireless transmission of information, yielding otherworldly images that speak less about what the cats actually see and more about the complex network of relationships that produces mis/communication.
Lately I am working with a set of layered and fragmentary narratives loosely held together by the phrase: "Landing on the Moon." In a series of small collage works, I combine images from the Apollo missions, catcam data, and photographs from my home. Using the sewing machine as a drawing tool, I stitch these images together. I, with the m/other apparatus, loosely integrate these disparate times and spaces with a materialized thought process.
In the groundless thread drawings, the stitched line is all that remains. Intricate, lacey, irregular webs crawl over the walls, semi-revealing partial objects. Relying on a network of pins and the surrounding architecture for structure, they are wobbly, and imperfect. Sagging in gravity and with loose threads dangling, they threaten to come apart where the network thins. They merge with and extend into the surrounding space. It is not clear where the work begins or ends.
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