Rachel Cockburn
Match
June 2005
Life in its non-biological sense, the span of time each man has between birth and death, manifests itself in action and speech, both of which share with life its essential futility. The "doing of great" will leave no trace, no product that might endure after the moment of action has passed. ( Hannah Arendt) A studio based research exploring the transient nature of time and space. The life-span of a match is bright, rich and tangible. What can pass in the duration of a match? What traces are left behind? A work to evoke a sensorial landscape questioning the priority of the visual; the temporal perception in a transient reality.
