Almost Something wants you to visit these places – this terrain of near hits and misses that all of these works provoke. What is it to reckon with a piece of art that doesn’t assert what it aims to say in either physical or visual terms? What realm do your mind and your eye run off to in order to rekindle the spark of meaning? Is it really plausible that looking deeper will ease the strain on our collective psychic powers? Alas, as long as looking, seeing, and thinking remain as our available tools for understanding so will imagining, abstracting, and inventing be our means of providing a quality of newness to the world around us. Olivia-jane Ransley’s video takes on this task of scrutinizing the concept of the everyday and poses the question How much of what you assume to understand have you really examined? Her videos showcase ordinary gestures of etiquette that slowly morph into acts of a bizarre and humorous nature.
