Stacey Righton

The physical taking apart and reducing and then rebuilding of a variety of materials occurs continuously in my practice. 

A few years ago in 2004 I made a series of work I refer to as my ‘Transformation Series’.  These works looked at highlighting the process of change that occurred in different materials when I manipulated them, for example, I smashed rock, pulped paper, ground paint and melted metal.  I recorded the materials’ gradual transformation using still photography and produced a series of images that looked like a slowed down animation.

I believe these and the other methods that I use are a way of expressing my beliefs and understanding of life; the cycles of growth and decay and the idea that everything is in a constant state of flux. 

For ‘Selected Bibliography’ I have used text from an atlas that I was previously working from when I made ‘Scattered Maps’ for eek at the Old grammar School in Redruth last summer. I have reduced the text to its’ individual letters and then have made new stories from those letters.  The stories are brief; they are simple observations and relate to the content of the original text in some way.