100% intersubjective space: caput mortum violet

GH made 100% intersubjective space: caput mortum violet in 2011 and included the artwork in Space you can't sit on: The space in Today at the Gail Hastings Exhibition Studio, Sydney, in 2011. 100% intersubjective space: caput mortum violet is one of two in the limited edition 100% intersubjective space. The artwork's medium includes watercolour, lead pencil on paper and a black frame, and comprises of two components measuring, overall, 60 x 122 cm.

ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF 100% INTERSUBJECTIVE SPACE MADE OF 9.75% STARES AT 90.25% COLOUR

Four strangers live in four corner rooms. Unbeknownst to each other, each shares a Caput-Mortum-Violet, Crimson-Lake, Scheveningen-Yellow-Light and Vandyke Brown watercolour in a black frame. They are unknown to each other, yet not alone.

FURNITURE

  • 42% of an old trunk the colour of Caput-Mortum-Violet is filled with chocolate bars that A gives to visitors when they leave
  • 15% incomplete, a garment B plans one day to finish sewing is folded inside a sewing machine case the colour of Crimson-Lake
  • 10.5% of the images still unseen, C is disinclined to put an art catalogue the colour of Scheveningen-Yellow-Light away and so leaves it on the table
  • 22.75% full of tea leaves the colour of Vandyke-Brown, D opens the jar and scoops the tea sparingly to avoid going to the shops too soon
  • STARES / STAIRS
  • framed watercolour