Dust 2008

Made for ‘Domestic applicance’, an exhibition at Flowers East, London, ‘Dust’ is a comment on domesticity, and the repetitive tasks which we undertake every day to impose order on our environment. An electro magnet picks up dust and drops it on the other side of a stainless steel table. A brush then sweeps it back. This process is repeated ad infinitum. The constant rhythm of dust being swept up and replaced is symbolic of our struggle against the forces of nature, the cycle of life, and the futility of existence.

Film - John Coombes