FUSE Glass Artist Residency

mutating, morphing realm of lines and
pathways, behind and around us, that hints
at other places we can be viewed from,
and see ourselves from, at which point we
might experience a kind of derealization
of self, and get to the idea of the self itself
as a makeshift diagram we’re endlessly
geolocating and not in a neutral sense.
(Echoes of Lacan’s gaze here obviously.)
Which means I think Marcel is properly
experimenting here. He’s running out
networks that test and probe, part hard
science part soft science while making us
aware of the extremely loaded nature of
those terms and how the meaning we make
is always a mapping over something, and an
imaginative experience and exercise, and that
a vanishing point is also a black hole, one that
is many, multiplying, so we can feel it nagging
our too visible selves, making us hold onto
the ground for balance as the earth spins
us around and some law of physics starts
tugging at our glasses and hats and hairpiece
as we get sucked as a globular whole with
all our friends and non-friends and well
everything damned else into an oblivion
that might be another future. Who the hell
knows. Certainly not me. I even can’t read
my own notes.
Robert Cook
Curator of 20th Century Art,
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth.
Previous Page: Trace/Traverse, 2023
blown and mirrored glass. Photo: Pippy Mount
Into the Void, 2023
blown and mirrored glass. Photo: Pippy Mount
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