Grey — Sam Petersen

Grey, plasticine, film, dimensions variable, 2017

Naarm/so called Melbourne

A gallery space with painted white brick walls and old style windows. There is a big disused conglomeration of pipes and taps in the lift corner, all painted white. Two big windows each with nine panels of glass, and metal framing between. There is w

Taken from beneath, a skewed shot of one of the windows with white plasticine looks up to the right.

A flat screen monitor mounted on the wall. There is a video of white plasticine showing.

This video is of white plasticine, with similar finger mark patterns to the windows. The white plasticine gently rises and falls.

A close up of the plasticine on the windows, I see it as bubbly, as the finger marks are quite round in this part.

A close up of a corner of the window, the plasticine has been pressed and smeared.

Another corner of the plasticine covered window. Dirt can be seen on the window ledge.

An up close photo of one of the taps. You can see the plasticine windows out of focus in the background. The tap is very pop flower like in its design.

A photo of the white pipes and taps, the plasticine windows to the right.

A photo from outside the gallery. The walls are red brick, the plasticine in the window makes the glass opaque and there is a palm tree as well as another building reflecting in it.

A shot of outside the gallery taken at night. The plasticine windows appear almost blue.

I used a lot of white plasticine to cover the biggest window in the gallery space. When the natural light shone through, it would at times turn the plasticine yellow. On the opposite wall, there was a film on a loop of me breathing whilst also covered in white plasticine. The works were meant to play off one another, the window side was a natural screen and the film an electronic screen. I was inviting you inside my body, in fatty layers.

I called the work Grey because it is impossible to keep white plasticine white. It starts to go grey the moment you touch it. I also chose to use white because it fit well with the white of the pipes in the space.

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