Ainsley O'Connell
Duplication and Dislocation
Walter Benjamin refers to the ‘aura’ of an object as being dependent upon its location in both time and space, informed by its materiality and the process of creation, resulting in a unique identity for each object. This investigation is concerned with the role that individual character and memory might play in the understanding of the object. The contradiction between interior and exterior in the hand picked macrocarpa beams was a starting point for questioning if it is possible to disrupt the more conventionally held views of identity and understanding of objects through disruption of form and material.