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‘Still Life’ reimagines the genre of traditional, floral, still-life paintings through the objective lens of Science and Mathematics. Using a combination of digital and analogue drawing, combined with sculpture and augmented reality, the installation surrounds the viewer with many of the sketches and ideas made and gathered whilst researching the project, which usually remain unseen.
Using specialist archival inks, these digital fragments were printed on to custom made roller blinds, like obscure symbols from a prehistoric cave, or the cryptic hieroglyphics of the Pyramids.
The double-sided, translucent blinds can be raised or lowered to create almost half a million different routes through the installation, making each passage a new visual experience, and a complete view of all of its surfaces an impossibility.
For this exhibition, a contemporary version of the Blue flower of Novalis was hung at the very centre of the maze, developed during a previous residency at the Kyoto University Centre for Advanced Studies from 2018-19.
Still Life, Michael Whittle, Creators in Labs 2019, photography by Sarah Kim
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