Lightness of Touch
Testing Grounds, 2024
Striving for a unity between sculpture and projection through texture, as a new conception of screen, Lightness of Touch, is an image-texture from a sculpture-projection. The projection content has developed from prior practice and is no longer a manipulation of an input. It is instead is entirely digitally made. The sculpture is cast cement on a bed of clay which has been pressed and moulded with personal textures, and objects and found material from Testing Grounds and Queen Victoria Market. The image-texture is no longer a representation of Place through my own design. The coming together I understand to be the amalgamation of these mediums. A softness of light was produced at dusk. The intensity of light mellowed with the setting sun and was diffused through cloud cover. This produced a cushioned shadow, where the framing of the work was as a shadow and not just in its material differentiation between cement and shipping container. The projection augmented this quality. The two light sources were not seen as competing but complimentary to the revealing the image-texture variation through depth and shadow. This work is a departure from typical screen technology as it does not emit into the world, it is instead an interaction within itself and its context. 
This was the first project work which was professionally documented from residency commencement to ‘outcome’.
The documentation, in the form of photos, are part of the reflective aspect to the practice, considering process, ways and methods of working.
Documentation by Emma Brynes.