A physical installation which I worked solely on, was ‘Printer in the Gallery’, which brought interaction and a physical object into my completed works. This work was an exploration into interaction and the way people approach an artwork. This made way for my idea, to bring a printer into this space with a few instructions and permitting people to use the printer in a way they have unlikely used it before. The installation worked to prompt people to place their face onto the photocopier and do as they wanted with that permission. This created some very unusual and disfigured works during testing, and this led onto what more can be added to this work. That directed the final work further, being a person’s face, with words over the top of them. These words fit with the images of people’s faces as they look pained and uncomfortable. When people interacted with this work and words were printed over their image, there was a lot of genuine confusion. Interactors couldn’t figure out how the words had come to be there, which made some people feel a little lost after their printout which was a pleasing result to see after their interaction. Seeing interaction with a work was interesting to see, drawing emotion from something in the gallery space was interesting and was the most satisfying result from this installation piece.

Getting a reaction from viewers has always been interesting to me and this followed with the domestic abuse that is the statement of ‘Smoking Gun’.

‘Printer in the Gallery’ 2018