Your Techno-Coloured Lights:

Fun fur, Truck Lights & Body Bags,1994

Soft sculpture installation

Detail

Exhibited at Common Ground Gallery, Windsor ON, 1994.

As I child I came across a car accident. I was mesmerized by flashing truck lights and an angel lying on the ground, with staring blank eyes. His long blond hair—lit in concentric rings from a policeman’s flashlight—was spread like a halo around his head. The memory is of a carnival of lights, pooling darkness, and dripping oil-like fluids. Derrida writes that light is a paragon, “one does not see light, but light makes one see.”  Here, white sheets are hung from the ceiling and slump as body covering and body bags: slates wiped clean, walls dividing cultures, genres, history, time and place. The soundtrack is of various vehicle engines, indistinguishable distant murmuring, overlayed with water dripping.

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