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I've built my world around you

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Detail of I've built my world around you

I've built my world around you is one of the first works Iain and Jane concieved and made together. It is a sculptural work made up of 100 home-recorded compilation tapes - Volumes 1 -100 of 'A Tape for Jane' - with handwritten inlay cards listing the tracks on each. The tapes are housed in a wooden tape holder which is wall-mounted.

This is Iain and Jane's first work to key itno the potential of the compilation tape, a motif which runs through a strand of their practice. I've built my world around you is a succinct and powerful observation of love and obsession, it's a quiet and understated piece that both symbolises and actually contains an imploding enormity of meaning.


I've built my world around you

 

I've built my world around you
Mixed media. 600 x 450 x 75mm. 1995

Exhibited in Yerself is Steam, July - August 1996.

 

 

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