ABSTRACT

Two painted glass plates form a free-standing surface in a steel frame, 175.8cm wide by 272.5cm high. A horizontal band at mid-height. The Bride above, her Bachelors below. Above a cascade figure (the Bride herself), a hanging cloud with three frozen and distorted configurations (the Draft Pistons) and nine randomly located drilled holes (the 9 Shots). Below, a more architectonic composition with a central mechanical device (the Chocolate Grinder), a parallelepipedal frame (the Chariot together with the Water Mill), an arc of cones (the Sieves), nine chessmen figures (the Cemetery of Uniforms who are the Bachelors themselves), nine deformed lines (the Capillary Tubes), two long intersecting bars (the Large Scissors), one circle and three elliptical shapes in silver (the Oculist Witness and Charts). A painting machine in ‘a state of rest’ with the painting itself ‘arrested’ through a sequence of snapshots as a photograph (see fig. 6.1).