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A Pause of Suspension Installation

Caro Williams

United Kingdom

Installation, Metal on Aluminium

Size: 72.8 W x 105.1 H x 7.9 D in

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A Pause of Suspension is drawn from Emily Dickinson poem, No. 449 I died for beauty, and comprises laser-cut words threaded onto ribbons. Each of the 18 strands holds one line of the poem and hangs from the wall to the floor where they are held in place with lead weights. The cut-out sentences are delicate and extremely light weight allowing them to move in the slightest breeze. Their movement causes light reflections to run up and down the sentences. The words are not easy to read with the ribbon running through the vertical lines hiding some of the text, but the formal structure of the poem is kept visible, with the ribboned text divided to reveal 3 stanzas. However, the number of lines per stanza deviates from their printed form and instead represents the arrangement of the original hand written manuscript. A Pause of Suspension is perhaps not an obvious translation from sound to visual, but by transporting the poem from the written word on paper to the written word as object this work proposes another way of relating to words. Through changing the activity of seeing and reading, by highlighting their physical nature, I am attempting to activate the sound element of the words. The title of this work is from Noah Porter’s 12 rules of inflection, based on the natural ‘conversational’ inflections. Rule IV: The pause of suspension, denoting that the sense is unfinished, requires the rising inflection. Noah Porter, Rhetorical Reader (1837)

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Installation:Metal on Aluminium

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:72.8 W x 105.1 H x 7.9 D in

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Caro Williams is a London-based installation and mixed media artist who works with symbols, sound, language, and nuance. 'Caro Williams’ work is actually quite hard to describe in a nutshell but that doesn’t detract from its accessibility and magic. Indeed its refusal to be pinned down goes to its very heart. Caro recently wrote that she is ‘searching for the moment in which intelligibility fades into ambiguity and mystery.’ She often translates or ‘processes’ things – sounds, words, film clips, lines from poems, ideas – into another materiality through erasure, covering, digital manipulation or reconstitution via another substance. There is a poetic oddness to these processes. Sounds are silenced as they get transformed into materials (for example, sound waveforms in glinting metal, or silence is made manifest through the lushness of velvet) and these in turn become apprehended by another sense – sight – as well as a visceral appreciation of the material used. The process of translation leaves a kind of poem in the viewer’s mind. We are suspended in a dreamlike space where meaning is ambiguous: we see and hear something that is familiar yet at the same time it is out of reach. Perhaps this is why, despite the beauty and pleasure of the work, there is something melancholic about it too.' -Deborah Burnstone, Artist Caro Williams was born in Hong Kong and studied fine art in London and Auckland. She was awarded a postgraduate research scholarship and an MA in sculpture (1st class Hons) from AUT Auckland. Caro exhibits in galleries and outside environments both nationally and internationally. She has received a number of awards and funding for her work, including the 2013 Headland Sculpture Biannually Selectors Award, and was a 2016 recipient of the Creative New Zealand WW1 Centenary Co-commissioning Fund. Projects include Cicatrix 2016-2018, an international artist collaboration with exhibitions and residencies in New Zealand, UK, and Canada. and in 2019, together with Deborah Burnstone, she co-curated Contemporary Art + Ritual, a group exhibition at the Crypt Gallery, London. Caro is a member of the Royal Society of Sculptors (MRSS), Arts Territory Exchange, and Axisweb. Caro’s work is held in public and private collections including the Wallace Arts Trust, New Zealand, and Luciano Benetton Imago Mundi Collection, Italy.

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