Artist: ‘Guy’ Lee Holt
Exhibition title: Fantasy of One
Venue: Neoterismoi Toumazou, Nicosia, Cyprus
Date: May 21 – June 4, 2016
Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Neoterismoi Toumazou
He was dancing steadily. He could see the backs of people’s heads moving in the darkness and was aware of the shifting spaces between their bodies. He did not register the music except as a sort of vibration. He felt as if he was dancing in perfect silence. He saw the already dim room growing ever darker around him. He became less conscious of his surroundings and more aware of himself. His introspection grew but his body was now moving automatically, softly cycling through a short loop of set motions. He noticed dust under his feet, and soon the realisation reached him that he was slowly wearing a shallow hole in the wooden floor. His body was locked in an efficient cycle. Before too long he was six inches below floor level, his head parallel with some of the shorter dancers. Yet he could not stop. Gradually he sank deeper into the ground until his face was level with people’s waists. No one noticed, below the eye level of the crowd, he was almost invisible. Presently his eyes came level with the soles of dancing shoes. He could see shards of coloured light flashing through a forest of legs casting jagged shapes across the floor. There were points where soft reflected light shone through looming figures like sunlight into a clearing. Eventually he was entirely submerged. He could look up through the hole and see foreshortened bodies moving above him oblivious to his plight. Still his feet moved, wearing away damp, pungent earth. The vibrations from the music lessened until the dull thump of the kick drum was all that he could feel. When it stopped he realised he too was still, and looking up he saw the sphere of light was gone.
‘Guy’ Lee Holt, A Bridge of Silence, 2016
‘Guy’ Lee Holt, Facade, 2016
‘Guy’ Lee Holt, Fantasy of One, 2016
‘Guy’ Lee Holt, ? (II), 2016
‘Guy’ Lee Holt, ? (II), 2016
