Derek Liddington: (After a conversation with a friend whom I admire but could never imitate, I came to the following conclusion: The fundamental flaw of the still life was the thought that life could be still), 2015.
It seems that Liddington’s experiment yielded the same conclusions that Stein’s did: “the flaw of the still life was the thought that life could be still.” In this collaboration with Toronto artist Ulysses Castellanos, Liddington proposed that they separately mould exactly the same fruit while engaging in a conversation about their lives. Despite the shared task of this experiment, the fruit they produced yielded altogether different results: Castellanos bananas are small and his grapes huge, for example. The subject of the still life, it turns out, is not the fruit.
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- Derek Liddington (with Ulysses Castellanos) The fruit of our joint labour was, in the end, fruit (After a conversation with a friend whom I admire but could never imitate, I came to the following conclusion: The fundamental flaw of the still life was the
- Derek Liddington: (After a conversation with a friend whom I admire but could never imitate, I came to the following conclusion: The fundamental flaw of the still life was the thought that life could be still), 2015.
