Isobel
McMillan
The work is all about what is not there and what the not there is made of. In an attempt to deal with the space between bodies, I am creating casts of the limbs that intrude upon the silent, unobserved space under the table. The under-the-table is a space ‘beneath language’, but as a holder of bodies, it is a site of relation, relationship. It is this relationship I am trying to make material. It is my overall concern to have spaces speak of their absent occupants. I am creating objects that evoke a bodily emission. Attempting to situate the viewer in the active position of fabricating a tale of the gone. The viewer has arrived after the fact, and this dislocated and static scene is all that remains of the warm, breathing body that filled the space before.