Installation:

Manipulated scientific borosilicate glass on shelving, hand-cast glass circular ‘scrying mirror’ with a circular projection constructed from 2,804 stills taken under ultra-violet blue light from time-lapse microscophy and walls painted with matt black theatre paint.

 

Super-natural situates itself in a black space as an installation. Organised on shelving, the scientific glassware in the installation is transformed into new working vessels to visibly manifest the invisible presence of witchcraft as a stress or significant change in their baffled, mutated and melted forms. The hung glass scrying mirror peers out in the black space depicting the synthetic entities ready for further and occult transformations. Constructed in a laboratory from data, formed into a plasmid vectors and transformed into the bacteria B. Subtilis 168, the synthetic entities fluoresce their animated selfs under ultra-violet blue light taken by time-lapse microscopic photography.

 

AV12 Festival, VANE Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK. 2012.

Exhibition photography by Lindsay Duncanson and Colin Davison, courtesy of AV Festival.