concepts, ideas & accidents
from benjamin
other art from benjamin
Conceptual art pieces, ideas, unfinished projects, and accidental images.
music and sound from benjamin
apocalypse exhibition
birthdays (1997)
These works were centred around the social and cultural ritual of a
birthday (parties, costumes, feasts, presents, balloons); and also the
sense of a birthday and a date of birth both being moments in time.
This moment is memorialised and fixed by photos and home videos, and
it is also something which can be thought to link disparate individuals
and personalities through the constellations.
other art from san
paint colour stories (1998)
Household paints are given romantic and evocative names to inspire the
home-maker's creativity: To buy a particular shade of off-white is to
buy into a specific atmosphere and lifestyle for your living space.
Most of us probably don't give these names a second thought as we peruse
the paint aisles of the local hardware-depot, but I decided to take
the colour charts on a different journey by connecting up the names
into short collaged poems or stories, and here are a few samples. I chose not to
use the paints themselves to create works, using the varied and evocative language of colour the medium.
fantasy table plans
There was a trend in the 90s for Fantasy Football and other things like
that, and it was this along with casual employment in the events and service
industry, and my obsession with systems and diagrams (with a passing nod
to Simon Patterson's work, particularly The Last Supper Arranged According
to the Sweeper Formation (Jesus Christ in Goal), 1990) that inspired
the conceptual table plans. A small sample is shown below.
accidents
Errors and unplanned effects can yield some of the most exciting results.
Although in many ways less reliable, the removal of our usual controls
can take us to places we might never otherwise reach. Many scientific discoveries can be
attributed to just such an uncontrolled reaction, but sometimes it takes others to realise a discovery's potential. I include
these accidental images because I find them beautiful in a way which could
not be intentionally created.
