eventually, everything connects

Peter Fraser, Untitled, from Ice and Water, 1993

Unfortunately, I missed Peter Frazer's lecture at LCC on February 11th, but looked at his website which is fascinating and read Gary Badger's essay, Eventually, Everything Connects.  

In this eloquent piece, Badger describes how Charles and Ray Eames' remarkable eight minute cult movie, Power of Ten, became a formative inspiration behind Frazer's work, along with the time he  spent with William Eggleston, 'the master', in Memphis. 

''Inevitably, materials change their state or bound, both box and glass fragment have degenerated from being 'things of this world' to formless chaos' bound. The glass may even be considered a 'thing of value.' Frazer of course has already explored this in previous series, but here in the disparate nature of things to which he has attended, asking us to draw broader connections, make Peter Frazer not only a more difficult but a more ambitious piece of work, along 'universe in a grain of sand' lines. In these Chinese boxes of connections, Fraser might be proposing a model or metaphor for the world, its past, present and future, by tapping into a small part of the cycle that will reach closure eons into the future - formlessness to form to a new formlessness."

Gary Badger, 2005