Trigger
Point
Gill Hobson
Interference Patterns
Interference Patterns employs
a key element of the
airport experience – the
luggage trolley – as a ‘dolly’
for the camera eye. Filming
explored the potentials to
extend my own agency in the
authority space of the airport
and facilitated the recording
of different kinds of image to
those consciously ‘framed’
by the artist. The passivity of
the technology enabled the
capture of information and
myriad details that eluded
the human gaze and ear,
glass window as light, colour,
pattern, and space combine to
produce a new articulation of
the experience in the present.
The new is framed in the images
of the past, the known,
as my unconscious finds a
point of coherence from which
to build a relation to the experience
of the space.
Mirroring this imagery in post-production produces a manner of Kaleidoscope where forms
and patterns are brought into
being while simultaneously
dissolving. In the mirroring a
documenting sound and visuals
not consciously seen or
heard.
Negotiating some of the unknowns of the footage in the
playback, challenged my own
memories of experience and
place, revealing in the edit an
unconscious focus on familiar,
indeed symbolic forms from
my own past. Colour, surface
pattern and the glass of the
atrium combine and flatten in
the image plane to produce
the semblance of a stained
glass window as light, colour,
pattern, and space combine to
produce a new articulation of
the experience in the present.
The new is framed in the images
of the past, the known,
as my unconscious finds a
point of coherence from which
to build a relation to the experience
of the space. Mirroring
this imagery in post-production
produces a manner of
kaleidoscope where forms
and patterns are brought into
being while simultaneously
dissolving. In the mirroring a
manner of cut or fold is made,
where imagery collides in a
central plane to create a third
space. There is no anchor for
the gaze, as the image plane
evolves and dissolves in front
of the eye, and sound and
image combine in an oscillation
of reverie interrupted by
reality, the conscious and the
unconscious, as the subject’s
inner and outer worlds collide.
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