Too Bright, Too Powerful.

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Too Bright Too Powerful is a 1:1 scale reproduction of a prop from the film adaptation of Jesus Christ Superstar from the early 1970's.
The object is a rotating display stand from the scene when the character of Jesus destroys the false ikons in the temple.
I was drawn to this scene and object initially as it presents a series of mirrors for sale and how this relates to our critical and theoretic understanding of cinema. In slowing down the film it is possible to imagine faces within the mirrors, some of which could be the faces of the camera crew or more likely other actors in the scene between the camera and what we can see.
The recreated the object, specifically from the footage with its limited information links another new project, 'Who are all you Zombies' which involved the recreation of artworks found in the background of scene from Gerry Andersons UFO series from the late 1960's. Here the images are intended to be from the future, which in UFO was 1980. This now passed, the project is to recreate these artworks as historical documents or relics of an alternative future. As in Too Bright Too Powerful the work is solely influenced and a product of the moving images available.

Related new work

Scale model of Notice Board dimensions one quarter of original


Proposals for LOCWS 08 International
www.locwsinternational.com/artists/higlett2.html
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Wall projection thin grey text barely visable.
23072008

Hunterhunted (working title)
model 06/08

Proposal
2 billboard either side of a deserted highway.
Billboard one with text 'Hunter'
Billboard two with text 'Hunted'
Sited along suns path from east to west.
As the sunrises the shadow cast by 'Hunter' billboard reaches across
road to just touch the legs of the 'Hunted' Billboard.
As the day progresses the shadow reverses until the 'Hunted'
Billboards shadow touches legs of 'Hunter' Billboard. Cycle and
confrontation repeated daily in wilderness.