in this pix. LRLR by Monika K. Adler
“DERANGE IN LONDON”
Exkognito Secret-Agent Mission-Impossible Right Up Landwarp
By Douglas Park*
Open-air places, built-up areas and civic-features develop interlinked chambers, corridors and stairs. Meanwhile, indoor enclosures become one vast wild garden. Hidden grottos connect via passageway tunneling circuit and mountainside ski-slope pavement floor.
Ongoing development forever stays unfinished and incomplete work-in-progress, only always with much changeover and movement around, not fixed or stuck any same ways for very long or at all, never mind about and just plain forget forevermore afterwards.
Coachwork, shipbuilding and cabinet-making personnel and expertise altogether adapt environment. Travel suitcase / treasure-chest trunk / cupboard shelving / filing system. Relocation and self-transportability enabled.
Each doll’s house kennel hosts compressed popup, pullout, spring-loaded, jack-in-the-box and cuckoo-clock interior décor, furniture and household-contents. Aquarium cage. Aviary tank. Conservatory spaceprobe.
Predatory trap, bait laden, sprung, poised, impatiently waiting, in ambush, ready to strike, when set off.
Action-stations. All systems go. Detonation Commences. Because some lost and stray toy drifts inside, expecting host playground and shelter. Instead, wrong-turning trespass stowaway freehold. Hostage well and truly taken. Prison sentence served beyond maximum limit. Contraband and storage prove both mutual culprit and product.
Every wall, flooring and rooftop surface has movable panel, screen, door and window glazing; multiple-jointed and foldable; slid and stretching, tight and long, flat and straight. Sharpened razor blade and solid chisel point hammerhead and sword edge. Deep cut incisions predate impact, before exit outwards, continuing through the other side, then further beyond.
Conjuring-trick tree-surgery saws apart patient. For real. No mere “act” or “stunt”. Automated vivisection and dismantling of flesh and blood blossom meat flower livestock.
In return, grateful inmate reshuffles entire film and stage set scenery, backdrop and showroom display.
Guest and hospitality-suite piece themselves and each other back together again. Dismembered limbs and spare-part component fixture upgrade switch about and exchange place.
1 new arrangement after the next.
Addition up and divisibility into puzzle, game, self-assembly kit and tool-set.
Combination sequence order endlessly shifts.
Elasticated and flexible articulation continues, until fossil substance gets replaced by flowing liquid.
Infinite turnovers generate perpetual-motion.
Eternal longevity outlives immortality timescale.
© Copyright, Douglas Park
- Douglas Park, born: 23-01-’72, United Kingdom, visual artist, writer (of literary prose and critical essays, both mostly art connected), sometime exhibition curator (and increasingly all practices and roles combined), currently U.K based and internationally active. douglasrpark@googlemail.com http://www.myspace.com/douglas_park +447813 271150
