Charlie Hurcombe
Something, Someplace #1 to #81
‘Something, Someplace #1 to #81’ is a continuous loop 35mm slide projection. The artwork consists of images brought about through the combination of two distinctly different forms of visual language; generic linear drawing and amateur photography. Within each of the 35mm slides a range of opposing conditions and contradictory situations are established.
The drawings utilised derive from engineering projection problems – whilst holding similarities to objects within the real world they hold no intended practical design application. As drawings they have no name, no material, no specific volume or size. Scale is eventually implied but not fixed.
The images on the 35mm transparencies are familiar to anyone who has ever been on a family holiday with a camera or posed for that personal tourist memento. The scenes and posed figures present subjects almost certainly known to someone at the moment of the image being taken. The found images have moved from the familiar and the personal to the forgotten and the discarded. Yet still they are possibly unique images.
The engineering drawings (digitally scanned and printed on acetate), the 35mm transparencies and the method of projection all reference the analogue in the digital age. With the coming together of the drawing and the transparency – the sharing of the same space (they are both essentially flat) – the drawn sculptural object is presented as being out of place, visibly removed and displaced from its original context and sited within the landscape image of the junk shop sourced 35mm slide.