Paul St George

Three interweaving themes emerge from these selected projects. One is a study of the history of visual culture (Classical Roman and late Victorian). Both eras are well known for their rich successes, but also hide a number of overlooked or incomplete projects. Paul St George has uncovered and is completing a number of these, including the Telectroscope and Travelling curves.
Another persistent theme is the use of photography and chronophotography to picture time. This is developed in the Chronocyclography, Trackorama, Supermoment and Chronopan projects, but also in curating the Sequences exhibition and in editing the imagetime series of books.
The third theme is the exploration of ambiguity. This has produced the highly collectable Minumental sculptures, Carpet Castle and the ultimate, two for the price of one, Rabbitduck.

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Carpet Castle is part of a series of works that result from an exploration of memory and play.

Carpet can spatially stand in for Sand; when playing with a Boat.
If Carpet can stand in for Sand, then Carpet can be used for making a Castle.

If the first proposition is child’s play the second proposition is the play of adults as we play with the rules of play and dream of new aesthetic objects.

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