In Our Real Life (Waves)

Footnotes

1. A person stands beside a magenta-purple painting, pressing gold leaf onto a seam. The hand’s position suggests repair or application. A section of the wall catches the flash, revealing subtle texture and traces of previous handling. The person’s forearm shows tattoos partially visible against a dark sleeve.
   
2. A worktable covered in plastic sheeting holds a brush with pale bristles, a small pencil, strips of paper flecked with gold, and scattered workshop tools. Light falls unevenly across the table, creating zones of warmth and shadow. Beneath the surface, parts of a floor and a case are visible, indicating an installation in progress.
   
3. Several sheets of paper, secured to a white wall with fluorescent yellow, green, and red tape, display typed notes, sketches, and a small printed reproduction of a classical painting. A pale purple panel rests below, while a black cable and socket along the right edge indicate a studio or workspace environment.
   
4. A person stands beside a table covered with sheets of paper and coloured materials. Their hand holds a print with two purple rectangular fields. Around them lie golden and violet papers, small black-and-white images, and transparent folders. Sunlight cuts across the table, catching the edges of the papers and the folds of the white shirt the person wears.
   
5. A desk sits under tall windows where late afternoon light fills the room. On the table, there is an open notebook, a stack of papers, and a vase of bright flowers with red, pink, and orange stems rising at different heights. Shadows from the window frames stretch across the surface, breaking it into geometric bands of light. Outside, the leaves on nearby trees catch the same sunlight and cast a soft green reflection on the glass.
   
6. A tall panel painted in purple is carried across a large room with high windows and theatre lighting overhead. The person’s back faces the camera as they move the structure toward a stage-like platform. Two additional panels lean against the wall, while the light from the windows outlines the scale of the interior space.
   
7. A person leans beneath a purple panel, holding a small knife against its edge. Their arm, marked by tattoos of a snake and other figures, is caught in the flash. The person’s focus appears on a fine detail near the corner, possibly trimming or adjusting the panel’s surface.
   
8. Plastic sheeting covers the floor of a room, where several bottles of purple paint have been placed. Some bottles stand upright, while one balances precariously on another. Near them, a roller and brush rest beside an open jar, spilling paint onto the surface below. The pigment pools and splatters across the plastic, mingling with faint reflections of light from the surrounding space.
   
9. An array of LED panels fills the frame. Each unit, marked “MPLED,” connects through a lattice of black cables and orange connectors. A single metal pipe runs vertically through the centre, interrupting the near-symmetry of the modular grid. The light reveals the panels’ heat sinks, ridged and matte, forming a surface that reads as both mechanical and patterned.