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