Captivated by the light that flickered through obscured, mottled glass window panes
not the clear replacement panes that disclosed unimpeded views
but the blurred panes
with softer lenses
where the light intermittently tripped
Blind Faith: The Promise of a 9 Meter Tower (detail), 2017
Materials: cardboard, masking tape, flour, water, digital prints on paper, correction fluid, biro.
Photo Credit: Daz Disley
Blind Faith, 2017 is a mash-up of several things:
- Witnessing the global financial crisis while working part-time in the capitals financial district between 2008 and 2010;
- The Tower of Babel; a symbol of self-assured hubris among economists and the consequences and dangers of overreaching ambition;
- Spreadsheets etched into the back of my eye while spending too many hours looking at them during my part-time job 2015-2017;
- The notion of a home being an elusive, complex thing to figure or subject to change.
Each unit is made from paper mâché which has a tendency to twist and torque during the drying process. As the tower grew taller it began to teeter, as each piece failed to buttress and reinforce one another.
At almost 5 meters, it didn’t reach the heavens of the deconsecrated x-church roof, it teetered, then un-monumentally collapsed with a tumultuous applause.
“Jack’s decision to climb the beanstalk is a moral tale about taking opportunities that life provides you. When he starts climbing, he doesn’t know where that path will lead him or if that path will lead somewhere at all.”
Hasanthi, (2016) Online source: What is the Moral of Jack and the Beanstalk (pediaa.com)
Source cited 27th April 2023
Blind Faith: The Promise of a 9 Meter Tower, 2017
Materials: cardboard, masking tape, flour, water, digital prints on paper, correction fluid, biro.
Photo Credit: Daz Disley