umbrella’s web

The umbrella and the wool stings, combined to pay homage to Edinburgh; the city where umbrellas are turned upside down by the powerful blowing sea-wind. That umbrella I found in November, was already broken, but did not deprive its use though. By re-converting the useless object into a new living IT, a second life is awarded to broken/left behind things. A new state starts with the reconceptualization of them, just as Duchamp conceived its ready-mades. The umbrella, the broken glass, the slate stone, the key, the blossomed tree, the fence, the gate, the pipes, the viewer, … all interconnected visually and metaphorically by the threads; the wool stands as threshold between individuals, collective image, personal perception, public reaction, implication and destruction.

The glass disappeared today, that glass I first found and incorporated into the web structure; its nothing not expected to happen, objects come and go, materials do not remain, the essence does, the essence of connection and implication of locations and habitants. The transformation process started the 7th August 2009, when the spider-umbrella was installed in the front yard of Livingstone Place, but it hasnt been until now that some teenager interaction came across the piece.

Finally the action occurred, the outsider has interfered with the strings, and by doing so, it has got attached to the piece; vandalism or simple contemplation, viewers decide their position upon the offered experience, no wrong or right reaction toward space, though opened not actually public. The existing web grows and changes its rhythm and pace to accompany the effect of its surroundings, dancing with the every day encounters, offering and receiving changes and mutations, the spider-web is enlightened by direct social interaction. And after Ariadne was defeated by the wind, buildworkers and ice, she, wrapped in her own web, lies on the gravel floor hopeless and wrecked.