Alex Shepherd

Perfect form can only exist as a conceptual reality.
The concept of geometry is more our reality than its physicality. We cannot draw a perfect circle unaided, yet we do not see what we can draw as being the reality of a circle but rather that we have failed in the creation of a ‘real’ circle, the ‘real’ being in fact our concept of form.

In this piece entitled ‘11088 Failed Circles’ I am exploring my inability to create perfect form. A circle has been drawn directly on each frame of a reel of 35mm film and scanned to create a digitalised edition of the film. As the circles flicker on the screen each frame is giving way to the next in a continued artistic failure of form. The piece serves as an embraced failure as artist in my inability to create perfection and my failed unity with form. A unity that will never be resolved in its purist sense due to materiality’s crippling of perfect conceptual reality.