The Fugitive.

I have just come to the sudden realisation that The Fugitive (1993, Dir. Andrew Davis) has quite a strong influence on my work, this is particularly noticeable in my cleaning co. project. I have always liked this film, having seen it (rather inappropriately) as a child and watched it many times since. Now I can say it subconsciously inspired my work. 

Below are screenshots from a scene in which Richard Kimble (Harrison Ford) steals a hospital janitors ID tag, buys a matching uniform, replaces the photo on the ID with his own, then infiltrates the prosthetics lab of the same hospital to gather information on "the one armed man" who apparently killed his wife.

 

Side note: Australian artist Ivan Durrant, infamous for his (often gruesome) hyper-realist sculptures, worked for a time in a prosthetics lab making false limbs - much like those seen below.

p.s. I didn't kill my wife.

S.M.W.

Working title/logo for the fictitious cleaning co. used in current and future installation/performance work (the colour/tone is liable to change).

Cleaning screen test.

I'm currently working on a project for my sculpture/spacial practice class, here are some screen shots of the first manifestation of the concept. 

Essentially the idea is to film myself across the city on security camera-esque footage cleaning various areas in a fictional cleaning company uniform (keep in mind this was just a test run).

This is a close up of the nearly-finished name tag I made to go with the 'uniform'. Sims Whittaker was a company my father co-owned before I was born, the shirt I used for the video was an old work shirt from said company - hence using the same name on the tag. I am only using that name temporarily till I can come up with my own fake company. 

Anyone interested in fiction as art should look up Peter Hill, here http://www.superfictions.com/ and here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfiction (now don't berate me because it's a wikipedia article - it is still insightful and has a good list of other artists working with fiction at the bottom of the page!).