So this is my exhibition called Wunderkammer Garden.
It is a collection or bringing together of the artwork
that I have been making over the last-- evidence
that I've been collecting of-- two or three years.
So not everything that I've made in the last three years
is here.
And some of this is brand new-- a lot of this is brand new.
But what I wanted was to bring things together
in an environment that would kind of replicate a garden
in some ways at a museum.
So that when people come in they would be slightly overhelmed--
just like you are in a garden, there is a lot to see and do.
And they would have a sense of discovery
like you do in a museum or science museum.
So you get to go and touch things.
Like these things spin.
They spin and can turn the light on,
and they start to look three dimensional.
So everything has kind of a hands-on component.
There's books you could turn the pages to.
This spinny wheel.
This pop-up book splits, so you open them up--
and this is a photograph of my garden
that I made three dimensional and a little bit pop-up.
I just wanted people to have a different experience
of the garden and of art-making and really
feel like there was a connection between the two-- and just
the sense of wherever you look there's something to see.
I don't think that it's all beautiful.
Like a garden isn't all beautiful--
some of it's decaying.
But it's just endlessly interesting.
Shall we go around the garden?
There are lots of things-- this one opens up.
It's actually a bunch of fake flowers,
which I am kind of fascinated with-- fake and real.
You close it down, and you push a button,
and you can see a sort of lens.
I have been a photographer-- not a trained photographer.
But I do work in an art department
that has photography, too.
I'm really interested in-- I'm not a very good photographer--
I'm really interested in the kind of preciousness
of the view camera and looking through a lens.
And yet, how I can destroy that kind of preciousness
at the same time.
So I [INAUDIBLE] camera lenses-- this one, you spin around,
and you can see the whole of the gallery
in like a fish-eye lens.
This cabinet-- these are the flower juices
that I made by boiling down the plants.
And you can see they've got floaty things in them.
So some of them have still got flowers and petals.
And you can move them on and off the light,
so you can see what different ones look
like when they're lit up.
You can take them out, stir them up.
[INAUDIBLE] crazy.
Sorry.
It kind of turns on by the action
of [? holding ?] the door.
So see [INAUDIBLE] by your action
you create something else.
These ones are like praxinoscopes--
like old-fashioned praxinoscopes when they were first
trying to make photographs animated so that they could see
people running for instance.
They made these things where they put mirrors
in the middle and strips of photographs
on the outside edge.
And like a flip book-- they're like a flip book laid out
in a circle.
So when you spin, it looks like things are moving.
And I didn't copy exactly the design
because I'm not [? medical ?] enough.
But I decided that I really liked my photographs
and the fact that when you spin it
the blur outside gets very clear in the mirror.
So I've got two of those.
This one has got fake flowers, so it's a little bit more
three dimensional.
So when you spin it, [INAUDIBLE].
This trunk has many different lenses and one hole--
and people are always like, oh that one's a hole!
And literally put their hand through,
which I always really enjoy.
So the lenses are all very different.
And so, I guess, I'm very interested in how we all
see something totally differently-- that there
is no real right way to see something.
When you're standing by this trunk like the same thing
is inside the trunk, but in a different lens
you can see something totally different.
This is real, but it doesn't feel real.
And people have to make sure it is real or not.
Here are more little pop-up boxes.
I put them with eyeglasses around so
that people can inspect things-- magnifying glasses.
Here is a cabinet that when you crank it the lights come on.
So once again as the viewer you're
kind of affecting what you see.
Here is a video that is stop-motion animation
that I've merged together.
So it looks like it just blends from one image
to another that's projecting through the screen that
kind abstracts it on to the back wall--
on to a canvas on the back wall.
Here are photographs of my garden
through the summer-- from the spring--
all the way through to the end of summer
along top of the wall.
And that's about it.