Daniel Eatock Talks in Circles

A new word to describe the seamless connection where the beginning meets the end in a circular line.
A sentence, as a subtitle, to a word that does not exist.

This is the name of designer Daniel Eatock’s presentation. And he doesn’t use Keynote or anything, he has a PDF and he drags it along from image to image. And there’s no other way to cover it really, than to give you a play by play, sometimes telling you what he showed, and sometimes simply passing along some instructions from Daniel himself.

Daniel Eatock talking in circles

Daniel Eatock is obsessed with circles.
He puts his camera into the audience and asks members to take photos of each other, as they pass the camera along.
Google Giotto and circle.
He’s obsessed with drawing circles
Google Lego spheres. Lego Master Builders must be able to create a sphere shape using only the cube-like shapes.
Put a bunch of chairs in a circle, and have everyone lean back until all the chairs are supported by the person behind them. A perfectly balanced circle.
A necklace made from interlocking necklace clasps.
Take a photo of your camera strap.
He shows a pair of scissors strapped to its packaging with zip ties: “This is a pair of scissors that requires a pair of scissors to use them.”
He took a cassette tape where he removed all the tape except for what fit perfectly in a single layer: A real tape loop. It’s 4 seconds long and he uses them
A Tube ticket, rolled into the shape of a tube.
An image of a card with a card on it: “I don’t have to say anything about that one.”
Wrapping paper made by Daniel with a pattern of price tags.
A jigsaw puzzle depicting unassembled puzzle parts.
Watercolor paintings of bottled water where bottled water is used to mix the paint.
A photograph of a number of food items that all expired on the same day. Then a photo of them the day after they expired. “One second past midnight, poof.”
Google Steven Wright. Google Zeno’s paradox.
He rigged a camera to a lightswitch and tried to capture the moment the light went off.
He took one balloon filled with breath and one with helium and tied them together, one rested on the floor, one touched the ceiling. Another series.
He often photographs the sun, eclipsed by an object.
A photo of the light on a gallery wall, hanging on a gallery wall.
A bookshelf built with a curve so books are aligned by their top edge. It looks like it sags in the middle.
A vandalized tree is given a new perspective.
More chair art: Leaning back to balance. “A lot of projects I do deal with that balance.”
Balancing markers upright on the table, then balancing paper on top to make prints.
A series of shelves with only one bracket, and items on the shelf must be perfectly balanced upon them. They fell down in the gallery.
A photo of him taken by the last person at the last presentation.
And the circle is complete.

With one addition: He didn’t show it, but I simply must share my favorite Daniel Eatock project: The Alarm Dance.