You can’t look back because it’s gone – Part I
Nicola Henderson
You can’t look back because it’s gone – Part I
Nicola Henderson
Reference
SAS0179_002
Year
2016
Dimensions (cm)
Height: 300
Length: 100
Depth: 600
Length: 100
Depth: 600
Materials
Clay print on Reemay conservation fabric
Current Location
In storage
Suitable Locations for the Work
- Indoors
- Hung from ceiling
Background, history, commissioner of the work
This is a video installation and was part of my final degree show at City of Glasgow College (BA Hons Contemporary Art Practice).
It was also exhibited at the SSA Annual Exhibition 2016, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh.
Thematic/contextual information
Still life images of neglected Glasgow buildings in a state of decay and streamed through a fabric clay monoprint ‘window’, showing themes of industrial archaeology and urban regeneration. The images a reminder of universal impermanence and the antithesis of clay as a symbol of concrete object reality. The monoprint is hung using thin fisherman’s line, which, because almost invisible to the naked eye, causes the streamed images to appear as if it floating in space.
