SPOTLIGHT: Fern Thomas (main hall) - images for OVADA's website

Struck by the contradictory spaces of the opulent Main Hall and the dark, hidden away Cells this work draws attention to opposite spaces, the roles they would have played during their history and the people who would   have inhabited them. Using the sound of a bell to fill both spaces, they are unified in one action. The Tingshas (Tibetan Cymbals) are traditionally used in Buddhist practice to clear a space and to reach into the four corners of a room. Slowed down in the editing process  the sound of the bell is drawn out, offering a space for reflection, and alluding to a sense of the Town Hall’s history.

[copied from Artist statement: floorplan]

a link to her work: http://www.axisweb.org/seCVPG.aspx?ARTISTID=13344