Forward, back, ascend, descend, turn left, turn right, 45, 90, 180, 360 degrees. Entry and exit a site once defined by particular expectations and understanding of use. Is there a way to bring point A forward instead of point B as it is A that usually recedes into the background.
How will tasks inform navigation of varied trajectories? What direction do these trajectories lead, up, down, back forward? If only one line can be followed in an infinite of lines, is a provisional position best suited when moving away from a point of origin? While within this unfixed and responsive position, when do support structures, eg: collaborators, the wind, or a trailer used to store and simultaneously transport the boat across land become as relevant to navigation as the form of the vessel itself? How does one step into or step out of an unfolding situation? One option could be to construct a tool to enable this potential…
Within a site, efforts are made to navigate potential via use of a tool connected to that site. One extension controls the next but does not give firm instruction to the point of origin, only an apparition of action informs the movement at the point of origin - the point contacting the studio wall. Only a flow of movement is recorded through the extensions, no set direction is made.
Actioned by friend, Robert Van Garderen. (Documented by J.A. Kennedy)
Using the hoist system installed to support the spiral staircase if it were to be stood up, I instead lift myself up to he ceiling, traversing a part of the studio space that is typically not accessible without some sort of extraneous effort. What is it to be self supporting with use of a support structure?
(Photos courtesy of Hazel Davies)
Supporting vessels for an open studio made by Jack Tilson and students of Woodfired Pottery School
