E2-E4

E2-E4

Fine Art

E2-E4 is a catalogue of separate works varying from photographic studies to recorded performance. Here they are seen as black and white silver-gelatin prints - paired down to a reduced form, all having gone through several stages of reduction. hanging around repetition , motion, and entropy these works form a close record of thoughts on the parameters of my own life distilled to the black and white squares. One move after another - and in continuous circles.

The works are indexed on a chess board - as 32 pieces and 4 boards:

Pieces demand space for movement and conflict – standing alone, but as part of a wider game in which their finite but vast potentialities can almost be pre-determined but never played out. Their inevitable role is to conflict

Boards represent the vessel in which movement occurs, they are a container which sets the parameter of possibility. The board is the physics engine of the game, a physical distillation of sets of complex rules and possibilities. Their inevitable role is to invite and shape conflict

So you have a sender of action and a receiver of action, respectively demanding conflict and control.

[Shortlisted for the MACK First Book Award 2019]

Jacob Clayton

Self-Published

2017

Section bound (sewn) with softcover jacket

21 x 30cm

76

36

100

East Sussex

Jacob Clayton

Jacob Clayton

jacobclayton.co.uk

https://jacobclayton.co.uk/e2e4-1

jacobclayton@live.co.uk

https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/11700/mack-first-book-award-tereza-cervenova-photo-london-somerset-house-2019