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| The Fates Word Ribbon (inverted) - Liz Collini |
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| A Most Minute and Delicate... - Liz Collini |
Liz finds a phrase from Marie Curie (A Most Minute and Delicate... LC), frustratingly as a quote on the internet without a verified source;
“Sometimes I had to spend a whole day mixing a boiling mass with a heavy iron rod nearly as big as myself. I would be broken with fatigue at the day’s end. Other days on the contrary, the work would be a most minute and delicate fractional crystallisation, in the effort to concentrate the radium”
a cauldron, magic, myth and folk tales; crystallisation of matter; matter as import, meaning; anxiety about rigour in research; the relationship between science and art
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| A Most Minute and Delicate... - Liz Collini |
Liz uses papers co-authored by Rosalind Franklin in the lead up to the discovery of DNA;
stretching and shrinking strands of matter using x-ray crystallography photographs to reveal the structure; matter/matter; crystallisation, editing, revealing, telling; metaphor, both conscious and unconscious; metaphor to explain scientific concepts
Franklin’s voice is clear and confident; she doesn’t know the epic status her work will have; metaphors from the warp and weft of the paper are reworked, but partial, fragmentary; the emergence of knowledge
ABOVE: Untitled x 3 - Liz Collini
Liz rewrites a paper as ink ‘strands’ on drafting film to make a screenprint but the print fails in the process:
the studio as laboratory, the failed experiment,
Liz works with the idea of the sibyl’s dying words placed in a bottle;
an old demijohn belonging to her late father; (he used them to make birch sap wine) filled with printed ribbons of text with the sibyl’s last words
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The Fates Word Ribbon
Sibyl in a Bottle
Liz Collini
Photographs of ribbons of text printed on lens tissue, inverted, intended for another screenprint which doesn’t work out, whereas the backlit digital image does; what status does this have?; process and experimentation in art and science
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