Fiona Davies Double X Marks the Spot, 2020, fabric, pins, thread and found objects, dimensions variable as seen in the online Telephone Project
During this process my initial focus on translation moved from the transferring an idea expressed in one code to expressing it another, to thinking more about the liminal space present in the original work where the artist tells the idea but also doesn’t tell. In other words I became interested in the original space of translation, that of the idea to the physical form of the work. Slightly weirdly I then started to imagine the original work as a treasure map. My work double X marks the spot values the space between the Xs as a spot that extends over a discrete physical distance. It forms a template or a map that can be applied in any space including the space of translation in this piece of text.
Click on this link to examine the whole weird and wonderful process. You can search fort the work I was given and the works that responded to mine. It is really interesting how strong the perception of the medical in my work was seen to be.