carousel

carousel making - head drilling - angel hammering















explosions are great but they are too uncontrollable for me to achieve my goal. i'm using mass produced kitsch figurines whose courtly poses have always been guides of good behavior. especially images of saints, angels, little girls and boys in prayer, etc., but also dancing couples and people in various chivalric mannerisms. the idea was to make these figurines burst and photograph the explosions. however, this is pretty much impossible since the shards and fragments are supposed to be still recognizable. i have to take a different, more mechanical approach. that's why i'm building merry-go-rounds - they have the potential to release explosive-like energy which is being controlled by attachments and defined space.






















this is a far cry from my original idea of re-creating a baroque ceiling painting in a photographic composition - but i feel that this is becoming my piece. it will have the idea of creating an imaginative space in common with the ceiling paintings. that's all. my room will have pictures of broken angels on rotating carousels, videos of people gesticulating without making sense and without connecting to the viewer, and a floor that exists as the roof of the room below, with a mirror on the ceiling to reflect it. this installation definitely hints on the concept of a fairground, and a virtual world (religion?).




















the blurriness of some of the carousel images

refers to its rotating movement, but also to

the quality of photography. building carousels

and using video to make art has focused my

interest in photography on its quality, on its

aspects.

i want to explore this some more....