Michael Snow by King James;

Author:King, James;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 2019-10-11T16:00:00+00:00

FIGURE 69. Michael Snow, Expo Walking Woman (Big Wall Figure), 1967.

Leaving the WW behind allowed Snow to return to sculpture in a new way since the works in this medium from 1967 are “related to aspects of the camera. These are all pure objects concerned with their means of construction, but also are concerned with the work as a Director of Attention.”7 Put another way, Snow’s work as a filmmaker and photographer released a new impetus in his work as a sculptor because those two media had made him even more aware of the interactions possible between surface and movement. The titles of some of the works call attention to how they are “Directors of Attention”: one sculpture is about confusion, bewilderment, and, ultimately, blindness; another is about non-blindness.

Snow has offered several analogies to describe Blind: “it’s like a three-dimensional cross-hatched drawing; it’s an object that monumentalizes fading in and fading out; and in another film-related resemblance, it’s like a zoom.”8 In many ways, Blind can be related to Wavelength. In each, there is a profound sense of loss.

This piece consists of four porous partitions framed in steel and clad in aluminium mesh. There are four different gauges for the panels, which are mounted parallel to each other and form a cube on three sides. The viewer can look at this 244 x 244 x 244 cm cage-like form from the outside and, in so doing, realize it has the appearance of a place of confinement, a prison. In fact, as a viewer from the outside looks at persons already wandering into this piece, they look fuzzy and ghostlike — very much removed from everyday reality. When the viewer enters this structure and then walks between the panels, the “depth of field” of the resulting maze is entangling and causes confusion. Where am I and where am I going? is the usual response. In a sense, the work’s construction causes one to go blind. What looked discernible from the outside becomes much more mysterious when its interior is experienced. The title also obviously relates to Gerald Bradley Snow and, in this sense, captures the sense of isolation and loneliness he experienced.

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