Collisions #3: Mark McDean, July 2011.Half string of pearls attached to colored print mounted on cardboard and framed around the edge with black Texta.
Approximate size: 12 cm (W) x 28 cm (L).
every home should have one: Mark McDean, 2005.The image (the first one above) is Mark's response to my previous artwork in this Collision series. On first viewing, the object, which was presented to me on white paper, appeared as a malformed entity clothed in a white toweling babies jumpsuit, however, when I photographed the actual object on a black background I could see the relationship between it and a photograph of Mark masked with a pink child's jumper, shown in his exhibition every home should have one and to his Collision #2, which is a mask constructed from six lace petals. The object now photographed reveals that the jumpsuit in fact forms a disguise, obscuring Mark's head and revealing only his neck, which is adorned with a string of pearls, a reference no doubt to the Mikimoto pearls that his mother wore when he was a child. Of course, the circle of pearls, which may denote ejaculate on a person's chest more fully engages with the sexuality (gay or straight) alluded to in my Primate piece. In all, the works recall childhood and the singular object of fetish and desire. Not only do these objects re-mediate the past (memory or history), in that they utilize existing media or materials in new ways to construct new meanings, but are re-mediated on this blog as circulating artifacts - that continuously collide.
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