A.M./P.M.: Description for ‘A.M/P.M.’ with still, Video Maar Holland, 1989

A.M./P.M.: Description for ‘A.M/P.M.’ with still, Video Maar Holland, 1989

“This is one of the ‘maritime’ pieces I made in the early 1980s. I was always influenced by an image from film by the Canadian Artist Joyce Weiland entitled ‘Sailboat’, in which that word appears bluntly against the edge of a boat moving across the screen. This being a triptych, it involved more elements that that deceptively simple film but nevertheless I wanted the 3 screens to appear as an impassive hole like a machine which merely displays nuances and inflections. …

A.M./P.M.: Programme for ‘A.M/P.M’, Air Gallery, c.1980.

A.M./P.M.: Programme for ‘A.M/P.M’, Air Gallery, c.1980.

“This is one of the ‘maritime’ pieces I made in the early 1980s. I was always influenced by an image from film by the Canadian Artist Joyce Weiland entitled ‘Sailboat’, in which that word appears bluntly against the edge of a boat moving across the screen. This being a triptych, it involved more elements that that deceptively simple film but nevertheless I wanted the 3 screens to appear as an impassive hole like a machine which merely displays nuances and inflections. …

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