451

451 is a highly visual panoramic work over six metres wide and two and a half metres tall. It is a slide dissolve work where object after object appear to disappear in flames as they fall down the screens. The work uses four slide projectors and two dissolve units working in tandem. The piece can be observed from both sides. In front of one stands a very large letter-box shaped six-meter screen. Onto it fall objects of all types, from tables and chairs to a roast-joint, from a suitcase to a car. As each falls down the screen it is seen to burn away to nothing. The images are projected from front and then from the back by four projectors, two each side. The images fall on layered screens between the projectors, one image coming from one end and then the next arising from the other as the first image falls away. An add on piece might be shown with the work disperse. A set of three works looking at the end of matter, including 'Calcium caving', 'Disperse' and the very large work '451'.