From Nought

2019, cotton thread, ultraviolet black light. Site-specific installation at The Lock-Up, Newcastle, for An Immeasurable Distance. Australia. Photography credit: Document Photography.

From Nought is a site-responsive installation that unfolds from a single architectural point. Installed in Cell D at The Lock-Up for Fielden's exhibition An Immeasurable Distance, the work took its cue from a small opening at floor level, a tiny passage that connects the interior of the cell to the adjoining outdoor exercise yard. From this point, threads extend outward within the cell, fanning across the space in multiple fine lines toward two barred windows near the ceiling. On the other side of the opening, the structure shifts: the dispersed lines are drawn together into a single, concentrated strand that rises through the outdoor yard to the bars overhead. The work draws on the idea of an axis, with the point of origin functioning as a zero or crossing. From this nought, the structure expands and contracts simultaneously, holding a tension between dispersion and convergence, interior and exterior, confinement and release. Activated under black light, the threads emit a pale luminosity. Interior and exterior are bound—drawn into a field of lines that pass between them, collapsing distance while holding the two spaces in tension.

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