A Point Without Friction

12-18-2024

Linen sheets, canvas, scavenged wood, memory, yarn, photography, projection, digital manipulation, nails, rocks, fishing wire

“A point is that which has no part,” is how Euclid first ascribed a point to its state in a physical location. The installation of A Point Without Friction is an ossified collective memory of a plot of woods located in New Jersey. A set is made up of wood scavenged from the original site, reassembled into the same fortlike structures that scatter the grounds. Between the rebuilt wood forms, sheets hang from fishing wire so that when viewed from the front, each peice aligns to display the projected image of a house drawn from memory. Though the installation can be viewed as a projection screen, participants have the ability to walk through the indevidual layers of the set, observing the modules that balence between real and nonmaterial elements of personal and collective ownership of territory and memory. Territory exists through a web of real and unreal elements, personal and collective borders and associations. When these associations of collective memory overlap between indeviduals they create a point without friction.

Documentation of arranging scans of reworked photography and drawings