"The nature of a free society is that it will always be the locus of a struggle between higher and lower forms of freedom. Neither side can abolish the other, but the line can be moved, never definitively but at least for some people for some time, one way or another." - Charles Taylor, 1991
This is the second of two projects (the first is here) dealing with body image and sense of 'self'. This project proposes that it is better to have a solid sense of individual subjecthood in the privacy of your home, but when you leave your home you should let go of this, becoming plural and flexible. The Body Deconstruction Chamber is thus an anteroom that attempts to facilitate this gradient. All of those squiggly lines in the room are mirrors, of different shapes and sizes and contortions. When leaving the bedroom the first thing you are confronted with is a large ordinary mirror, but then as you move through the room, this solid image of self is morphed and fragmented. Similarly, approaching the room from the other angle, you begin with a distorted image and by the time you actually enter the bedroom you are accompanied by a solid, simple reflection. As usual, click on the image for the full thing. plan perspective sketch
Welcome to Duncan Patterson's Weblog! I use this space to display and share the work that I'm doing as I do it. It is positioned somewhere between sketchbook/notebook and gallery/publication. Among the various things that I try to work on are prose, poetry, visual art, sculpture, paintings, drawings, collage, photography, carpentry, and pottery. Each post is tagged according to its medium and sometimes according to its theme so in addition to navigating the site chronologically you can also do it that way.
I am currently living in Toronto, Canada and am working on a smattering of different projects while I find a more permanent home at an architecture office.
Hope you enjoy perusing my work! I also have a website, dprpatterson.com which is a more formal array of my portfolio of work.
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