Sympathetic Magic

In fact this has nothing to do with working visually at all, but is a form of (mainly) sympathetic and (partly) contagious magic; see Frazer, Benjamin, Adorno and Taussig (as well as, in a different context, Malinowski and Mauss). What I was actually doing here was ruminating upon the subject, a process initiated and motivated by the 'artwork' itself - by 'listening' to it - and one which, by virtue of its ontological status, simultaneously prompted a form of debilitating inaction. The presence of mirrors was intended to aid reflection, but this eventually led to a form of agitated brooding - the chewing of liquorice was intended to ameliorate this condition, or to assist in its completion. A full report will be presented forthwith; this artwork has not yet been fully processed.