Susan Hiller. A video /photography /installation artist, she annually holds a "cremation" for her works; she sets fire to the work and later fills the ashes into jars- paralleling the human service.
The photograph to the right is of her work Hand Grenades 1972, whereby each cyclinder contains individually labelled paintings from 1969. The artist describes her annual burning and reconfiguring of paintings in quasi-scientific formats as a ‘ritual’.This notion adds to the feel of ephemera, and something I want to touch on in a sense, but not for it to overpower the pieces I create.
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