FUSE Glass Artist Residency
Marcel Hoogstad Hay: Sublime Scales
Marcel Hoogstad Hay: Sublime Scales
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Then the squashed<br />
and densified and<br />
compressed and<br />
rounded mirroring of<br />
Marcel’s work pings<br />
by Robert Cook<br />
As usual I start to type and find I can’t<br />
read my notes. Tiny little spider writing. In<br />
mechanical pencil. Lines connecting half<br />
sentences. They are not ‘helpful’. None of it is<br />
‘helpful’. I wonder, though: were they meant to<br />
be? If I take it that there is an unconscious, I<br />
could interpret myself as fashioning a teasing<br />
tangle of responses and echoes to Marcel’s<br />
words and work that undoes my capacity to<br />
be a transparent medium. Of course, I hate<br />
this about myself. The insertion thing. My<br />
galumphing presence; I so want to overcome<br />
my grotesque need to be visible, or audible,<br />
whatever it is. Weirdly though, it’s not just<br />
manners. Isn’t there a sneaky little trajectory<br />
that is in fact a not-so-little not-so-sneaky<br />
trajectory of dudes being hidden and<br />
occupying stances of neutrality that aren’t<br />
that? That guide and guard and shape and<br />
shade so that their power (look how I<br />
distance myself here, their) is hidden,<br />
naturalised. Neutralised in a way that’s<br />
anything but.<br />
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blown and mirrored glass, acrylic paint. Photo: Pippy Mount<br />
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blown and mirrored glass. Photo: Pippy Mount<br />
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