Today, the work hangs in the gallery. Finally. After months of thought and planning, and an impulsive evening of applying hot glue, and scrunching up paper comprised of video frames, and hoping that the hot glue will hold everything together, it is done.

The work talks about the ephemera of structure, the passing of time, and the fact that nothing lasts forever. It is designed to vanish and decay from the Internet, apart from the documentation that I write here.

It is on the wall. The "affairs" of the History Symposium are now complete, and it is time to point how "it was made" :)

First, the details:

The Art is a bit of a sideshow compared to the historians who will be speaking, and I do hope that it (especially my piece, because I have to be selfish) will generate discussion and thought over the time it hangs.

We have been invited to have these works move to the foyer of the council building for history month, which should give the work even more exposure.

Deliberately, slightly off centre, this QR code gives participants all that they need to experience the piece itself, and as to how the frame was constructed, and put together:

Sticky taping directly the print out of the QR code and information to the front-perspex of the frame, and starting to scrunch up the black and white print outs of the photographs used in the video piece. There is also, interspersed in there, pages of the code I worked on to be get the image transfromation working as seen on the accompanying website.

I added a payment link - as I realistically can't sell the frame itself, and a countdown (in ms) to add urgency to the piece. I don't expect to make any money, but If I do, that would be fantastic. I am handling payments via Stripe, so hopefully that should make it painless if people want to financially support the artwork.

As this is hanging in person, I think my best chance of that was probably today, likely while I was in the room explaining my methodology and chaos (and probably the hive blockchain) to people - about immutability, and my belief that nothing is forever, and everything is ephemeral.

Back to the past, (because it is about history, hahaha!) I continued to add more and more paper to the back of the frame, creating a 3D effect behind the frame. It is really cathartic to scrunch up paper. If you haven't done it for a while - give it a go.

I actually ran out of print outs of the material I produced for this, so I destroyed a completed sudoku book, which works well, because many of the formulas for the image degradation are based on pixel grids and random numbers (though, of course, Sudoku isn't random) - so its a nice hidden detail for any of the mathematicians in the audience.

Then, came the application of hot glue, and the use of some kettlebells to hold the whole thing together.

As far as artworks go, it is light weight, but I hope that the discussion about it will be heavy.

I was really touched by one of the artists in the group chat for this show (there's probably about a half dozen of us) reaching out to me and for her to explain how the work really moved her when she wasn't expecting it to do so.

I really do hope that I get the same visceral reactions from others who witness it during its limited life span.

This now concludes this particular project, and I must put the final touches on my planning for my solo exhibition which now opens in two weeks! It is all happening!

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More than happy to answer any questions on the work!