"Transformation of Ignored Things" is a video installation using 2 video sequences each 10 minutes long, playing in synchronisation on 2 monitors.

One monitor is suspended in a white box, facing downwards directly above the other monitor which is in a white box facing upwards.

On the top monitor we see a drop of water form and fall towards the viewer in slow motion. It was filmed from below and so it looks as if it falling down onto the viewer beneath. It disappears before it hits anything.

As this drip disappears we see on the monitor below a drip appear in slow motion and land on a clear surface. We see it land in slow motion, with every ripple and movement extended so that they are visible.

Looking up again we see another drip forming on the monitor above. The pattern repeats in slow motion for 10 minutes until the screen on the monitor below has filled with water.

At first the drips landing show the surface tension and the texture of water landing on clear perspex. As the screen gradually fills with water the impact of the drips on water in slow motion becomes more dramatic and cathartic.

 

 

The intention of this piece is to transpose a tiny daily event like a drip of water to a gallery context, and through slow motion and spatial arrangement allow the viewer to experience this event in a new way. This will hopefully leave the viewer feeling that their experience of time within the gallery has been affected, and also their view of their daily environment.

 

Photographs of Transformation of Ignored Things, exhibited in selected exhibition at Brighton University Gallery, 2002.

Still from drip falling sequence

Stills from drip landing sequence