INTRODUCTION

This blog charts the creation of David Marron’s new installation, Circular Ruin. Like the work itself, it is an assemblage of objects, images and text; an invitation to investigate the multiple narratives contained within these rooms.

In following the evolution of this work, the viewer will discover more than simply the emotional, intellectual and spiritual traces that link us with both the work and the creative process. It allows us to see that beneath the complexity of David Marron’s vision is a sense of humanity confined by neither the self nor the span of a single lifespan.

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MAY 2008 JUN 2008 JULY 2008 AUG 2008 SEPT 2008 OCT 2008

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October 2008

Dante’s Circles of Hell

1 - Limbo - Unaccepting of Christ
2 - Lust
3 - Gluttony
4 - Materialistic/Hoarders
5 - Wrathful
6 - Heretics
7 (i)  Violent towards others
   (ii) Violent towards themselves
   (iii) Violent towards God
8 - Treacherous
     Bolgia (i)  Panderers/Seducers
               (ii) Flatterers
               (iii) Simony
               (iv) Sorcery
               (v) Corrupt - Barrators
               (vi) Hypocrites
               (vii) Thieves
               (viii) Treacherous Advisors
               (ix) Disruptors of Harmony

               (x) The Fraudulent
9 – Traitors
(i)   Caina
(ii)  Antenora
(iii) Ptolomæa
(iv) Judecca

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September 2008

The Circular Ruin (Floorplan)

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DIARY August 2008

Notebook 1	Notebook 4


Notebook 3
The Circle/Sacred Geometry

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July 2008

Notebook 17

“With relief, with humiliation, with terror, he understood that he too was a mere appearance, dreamt by another.”

The Circular Ruins

Borges

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June 2008

Reference point for Pandora/Figure Three/Circular Ruin

DESTRUCTION

Les Fleurs du Mal

Charles Baudelaire

The Demon is always moving about at my side;

He floats about me like an impalpable air;

I swallow him, I feel him burn my lungs

And fill them with an eternal, sinful desire.

Sometimes, knowing my deep love for Art,

She assumes the form of a most seductive woman,
And, with pretexts specious and hypocritical, Accustoms my lips to infamous philtres.

He leads me thus, far from the sight of God, Panting and broken with fatigue, into the midst

Of the plains of Ennui, endless and deserted,

And thrusts before my eyes full of bewilderment, Dirty filthy garments and open, gaping wounds,

And all the bloody instruments of Destruction!

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May 2008

Circular Ruin Drawing 1

Flies gather on a window pane. The first indication of a life now extinguished. Inside lies a forgotten and misshapen form surrounded by an array of personal possessions. Fragments of a life, their relevance obscured by death. New narratives ask to be invented from these objects which stand in bewildered remembrance, plastic witnesses to a solitary death.

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