WWW.

Sandra

Langlands & Bell, 'www.', 2000

Friday, 27 October. 2.00pm. A finely etched sphere appears suspended within the cube. The network of the sphere is incomplete, allowing an inner and outer view. Silver, spidery threads drawn/swung out from points within the sphere measure a space and energy – within a tennis ball, for example, but no bounce; just semi-circular motion.

Wednesday, 1 November. 6.40pm. Are lines etched from a needle on a pendulum swinging inside? Am I looking at a magnified image? Still can’t find pattern to web. It’s a conundrum.

Thursday, 30 November. Why is this web in a cube? I am now more interested in the space that the web is frozen in than the web itself. Perhaps it is comments and information I have received from other viewers? I am irritated by small scale of cube. Trying to enlarge in my mind. I am still looking into uncompleted area of web – definitely the most interesting aspect for me. It’s difficult to identify with. It’s not that I don’t like it. It does look good on the light box. The light lifts it up. There is a sense of awe and wonder about it as you would experience looking through a piece of crystal – patterns, reflections… It’s beautiful but it’s been difficult to become fond of it. Maybe I’m looking for something emotional about it. I want to identify emotionally – ‘I understand that’, or ‘I know how that is’, or ‘I know that feeling’... Some feeling of recognition… I think it’s a great work of design and technology rather than art. There’s no evidence of anything human about it.