abradbur – Looking Outwards 03 – Section C

This is “Still Life (Morandi’s Infinite Shelf)” by Jason Salavon. I was really intrigued by his piece “Generic Mammal Skull” that was shown in the lecture notes given with the instructions for this Looking Outwards, so I went to check out his website and was delighted by what I saw. This Infinite Shelf is somehow able to make itself run forever and slowly produce new, possibly randomized vases as the image crawls along, from what I can see. I love art that seems mundane but actually has a fantastical sense to it. It tickles me. I feel like I could find this shelf in the house of a modern, scatterbrained wizard.

If you feel like watching a slow pan of a shelf for three hours, here’s a video of the work where you can observe Still Life in action.

And here’s his website. And the page where this work can be found.