When Process Matters - and When It Doesn’t

The 1977 publication ‘Faszination Sport’.

For some, ‘process’ is everything; where the meaning resides primarily in the process that produced it. For others it is irrelevant. For me it’s both.

Held Up To Light begins as a process, it is created entirely through material encounter and physical action. In this sense, the work aligns with a process-driven strand of conceptual art; where the act of creation carries more significance than the object it produces.

And yet, the moment the illusion reveals itself to me, the process recedes. I’m no longer concerned with how it was made, only with what appears.

Then, process returns; extracting, archiving, photographing and reproducing.

Then, again, all that additional process falls away the moment this new image appears here to you, the viewer.

Page extract from ‘Faszination Sport’.