Thousands of steps / ten-thousand-words

Abstract

The word pattern can be understood as both a model and as repetition. This research explores pattern in both these guises. However the primary concern here is not the rigidity of pattern but the disruption of that rigidity; and it is this disruption that is both the subject and object of my research. Paradoxically this exploration would not exist without repetition, pattern and structure. Pattern as ‘model’ contextualises Academe as a site of display to interrogate the space between text and image. Pattern as ‘repetition,’ is contextualised using the cemetery and the home to interrogate space and time. Using methodologies of surrogacy and translation, and strategies pronounced in the twentieth century projects of Art & Language and concrete poetry, Thousands of steps / ten-thousand-words explores the potential for disruption to create new form and meaning in my work.