Wednesday, May 19, 2010

"I Always Never" Installation at the Schwartz Gallery


Life. Constant choices. 3 keys, invisible doors, 42 bottles.
"I Always Never" was inspired by Alice in Wonderland, the scene in which she has just fallen in the rabbit hole, and must find a way out of there. She has one little "drink-me" bottle on a glass table and a key next to it. We all pretty much know this story so I'll get straight to my own interpretation.
Consider this. You are Alice and the Rabbit Hole is your life. you must get to the next stage and in order to do so you must get the key. To get to the key you must drink from the bottle until you get to the right height.If you already are the right size, good on you, but who knows what the door looks like?
Now, just to make it a little more complicated, there are 42 bottles (a little wink at Douglas Adams) and 3 keys. Which is the right one? yours to find out. The possibilities come in large numbers.

Ok let's say you finally managed to drink from the right bottle, you could grab all three keys, that makes,of course, the most sense, and now you gotta find the door...

Now that the show is over, and at some point in time, I will give the bottles away, so my piece lives on, different stories... So if you fancy a couple, get in touch.
there's my e-mail address:
genie@centrepointcollective.org

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