When Process Matters - and When It Doesn’t

Page extract from the 1977 publication ‘Faszination Sport’.

For some, ‘process’ is everything. For others it is irrelevant. For me it’s both.

Process is everything in the discovery of a Held Up To Light image; it is created entirely through material encounter and physical action. In this sense, the work aligns with a kind of process-driven conceptual art; where the act itself is the art, and meaning resides in how the image comes into being.

And yet, the moment the illusion resolves to reveal the new image, process disappears. I’m no longer concerned with how it was made, only with what is there. The work detaches from its origin and becomes something autonomous, something to be simply experienced.

Then, process returns. Extracting, archiving, photographing and reproducing.

But again. it falls away the moment this new image appears here to you, the viewer.

Page extract held up to light.