Fab3 - Www.fab3.net - The Golden Dimension- 2006

This installation, a mixture of photographic material as well as different other materials and tools makes the connection and provides the link between the artist, builder, performer and his/her audience who comes to revel in, enjoy, or even destroy the fruits of the worker's labour. A builder will use, mix, apply, and arrange material in a way as to create something gold. Gold here represents the finalised outcome of long labour and evokes in the mind images of an unrefined, unworked metal that only becomes gold when shaped, melted, cleaned away by "debris" given meaning by artistic, commercial, emotional, communicative or other intention; an outcome though that will very much depend on it's viewer/recipient. The messy skeleton and platform of the building and the roughness of the workers, a scenery set against a green and peaceful environment, shows precisely the process of making something new out of materials already there and making it such so that it stands without it's makers physical presence.
Like an artist that first creates and later separates from his work to leave it to others to use and make meaning of it, so the builder leaves behind a house to be made a home or even to turn to ruins if that is what users will make of it. The gold is in the making as well as the receiving; it lies in the intention of creation which cannot stand without the intention in the use, the interpretation. It is the interchange of the two that creates the ever-changing outcome, the gold, and renders it organic rather than cold. The viewer, like the future inhabitant of the building structure, is left outside the "building site" but is invited to participate in the meaning of it, leaving always the maker in complete solitude.