‘Tick, Tack, Tick, Tack, Tick’
David Dale Gallery
Glasgow, UK
24 November to 16 December 2012
“At one time I was so impressed, so enthralled by the beauty of colour and form that I wanted to perpetuate it forever. Long before I knew about movies, I tried to imitate the camera and say ‘tick’ when I was moved by something, feeling that I was recording this particular scene for ever, and then I would say ‘tack’ when it was over. My mental film clips lasted longer and longer. First they would just be a few seconds and then, after about a year, several minutes. I would say ‘tick’ and then something ugly would spoil the scene or something boring would happen and I would say ‘tack’. When I was about eight, I said ‘tick’ one day and forgot to say ‘tack’ and it has been running ever since, this interior camera.”
– Edward James, Swans Reflecting Elephants
Using a combination of projections, prints and structural installation, Whipps presents photographs created over the last year in Las Pozas, Mexico; a surrealist sculpture garden, built by Edward James, in the Mexican rainforest.
