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These tickets are the waste created in the daily job of "Price Control". The tickets are constantly changed as products go on and off offer, decrease and increase in price etc. There is a continual flood of tickets passing through the hands of the worker - the circle never ends, the job neither begins nor finishes, nothing is completed. The individual has it in his power to leave however the job will receive a new body to implement the necessary actions and, thus, carry on without him.
My work is a glimpse of an eternal action, a cross section of an irrepressable continuity. A continuity that has the potential to span far beyond one person's experience of time. 'Mundane' tasks are being carried out at all times and all moments. Repetition is an intrinsic part of reality. I aim to highlight this repetition, to capture its form as it manifests itself in physical matter.
The transparent bags allude to the idea of capture, of a stillness, a halt in movement. The tickets themselves exude the idea of action, of a particular action replayed over and over. This action has been interrupted, stolen for a time, snatched away from itself. The pause is brief, like a catching of breath. A weighing up of all which has taken place thus far... and then action resumes, life resumes, movement resumes and resumes and resumes and does not end.
The job continues, endlessly continues. Forever the same actions, identical gestures disappearing towards infinity. It is only the details that change and attract our fleeting gaze.
And somewhere inside this variation, of one word rather than another, lies the very essence of our lives.
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