- 'One Things
Leads to Another' at The Museum of Foreign Art, Riga, Latvia - March 2003
- 'One Thing Leads to Another' - Sketchbooks and Dominoes. At Museum
of Foreign Art Riga, Latvia:
- The title for both rooms 'Paper Plastic' refers to the
medium. For room one the title is 'One Thing Leads to Another'. The subject
is 'Fate' or we also talk about Necessity, Determinism, Causation... The
question is whether we have any freedom to bring about our preferred choices,
and if not, can we understand how one thing causes another? The sketchbooks
and the dominoes are taken as analogous metaphors in that they have individual
parts, pages/pieces, which seem to lead from one to the next. Both appear
to allow the next step to be 'up to us', or of our own free will, but outside
factors influence/determine what happens. They also have the visual link
of two sides (open book/domino face). Notions of 'the game', apparent skill,
hidden/shown are also examined. The images selected from the books are
from three groupings, War, The Personal, and Numbers/Mathematics. The first
two are to contrast the current climate of global military events and our
personal lives, both of which we often feel we have little control over.
The mathematical pages remind us that the rules of chance may be determining
how all the pieces fall.