My work revolves around the relevance of the intentionally incomplete state as a method of production in art and design practice. The term itself is an adaptation of the Renaissance term ‘non-finito’, which quite literally means ‘not finished’, and refers to artworks which contain a specific counterintuitive; they are in part decidedly unrealised. In my work, I wish to challenge the authority of the completed work, with an approach that avoids medium specificity. The incomplete is often interrogated through manipulating notions of ruin, abjection, decay and the inconclusive narrative.

Temple of Modern Virtue is a proposal for a play that hasn’t been yet performed. The stage directions are enacted on a 3D rendered stage, on which there are no actors. The dialogue and movements of actors are visualised with the use of spot lights and shadows. To me it is very interesting, that the format of the stage direction or script can withhold the possibility of a forever incomplete narrative, as its performance is always a version.

‘It is curious that unfinished works maybe the result of either hypertrophied obsession or anemic disinterest’

James Elkins, Modern Impatience