Dust 2008

Made for ‘Domestic applicance’, an exhibition at Flowers East, London, ‘Dust’ is a comment on domesticity, and the repetitive tasks which we undertake every day to impose order on our environment. An electro magnet picks up dust and drops it on the other side of a stainless steel table. A brush then sweeps it back. This process is repeated ad infinitum. The constant rhythm of dust being swept up and replaced is symbolic of our struggle against the forces of nature, the cycle of life, and the futility of existence.

“ In works such as Eraser and Dust Jim Bond engineers a serious satire on these ambitions: the dream that when we make a mark it might last forever turns out to be permanently defeated; the hope that when we clean up th world it will stay in good order is always undermined by the return of something annoyingly chaotic.” Simon Schaffer - Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science at The University of Cambridge

Film - John Coombes