Mark Titmarsh

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Mark Titmarsh is written by Mark Titmarsh and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1920781269 (ISBN 10) and 9781920781262 (ISBN 13).

The Thing is a hybrid outcome from Titmarsh's various practices in painting, writing and screen media. Painting as such becomes self reflexive and dissimulates into objects, environments and experiential zones. Much of this work is highly visually engaging while at the same time provoking philosophical questions about modes of being. The exhibition makes a waving reference to John Carpenter's sci-fi thriller of 1982, and Howard Hawk's earlier version of 1952. Carpenter's film in particular involves shape shifting aliens (non-humans) assuming human form. The Thing is also the title of a famous essay by Martin Heidegger in which he poses questions about the un-homely nature of all 'things' in a world dominated by technical economies. One of the most common things in our environment is plastic. Everything in this show is a form of plastic; the resin, the acrylic paint and the fluorescent string. In our age plastic has become invisible, misunderstood and despised. When the Plastic Age began in the 1920s it was created to emulate steel, wood, glass and beyond. If we return to treating plastic as a super hybrid with a potential life span of centuries, then it assumes a totally different cultural meaning and ecological value.