DILATION 2006
DVD
projection, black and white silent 6 min loop
Dilation, a commission for the huge 'Reveal' event at the Forest of Dean, was projected directly onto a thick bank of
conifer trees. On approach, the
viewer perceived a perfect black hole in the forest, expanding and contracting,
always threatening to break out of the rectangle of the screen but never doing
so. As you walked past the work,
its flatness broke down and the darkness became three dimensional, amorphous
and unsettling.
'Tabatha Andrews’ dilating
black hole projected onto a row of evergreens, was a perfectly sited crescendo,
which disrupted one’s own sense of three dimensionality after having been so
tuned in to the depth of the forest by the other works. It recalls the Hegelian
notion that pure light and pure darkness are two voids which are the same thing. ' Louise Short, AN Magazine June 2006