This post is about the Scopetical (in)curiosity in my recent Absurd Museum: “Doctor Kali Gehry’s Cabinet of (in)Curiosities and Ecstatic Nonsense”
The Scopetical’s civil engineering scope is “levelled” on a stack of paint cans. The scope is oriented to look at, by turns: a spinning foreground (in)Curiosity; a suspended dirt covered glass window; a ridiculously reconfigured lego toy sitting on cardboard shelf cut out of a cardboard panel; a shaving mirror attached to a far wall which in turn reflects a looping animation playing on a perpendicular wall. The viewer can “move” back forth through the space of the exhibition by manually changing the depth of focus on the scope. The effect is lovely – haunting, painterly, evocative.