In On Literature (2006) Umberto Eco discusses ‘totemic objects’ and symbols, and how archetypal imagery can ‘tell us what we have to believe in’. Stansbie’s filmic narratives contain descriptions of significant emblems and environments, and when such fictional objects are created in material form they can become an elaborate frame with which to view the original film.
Totemic objects uses Stansbie’s Spitfire Beach (2010) film to create objects stemming from its narrative, and the films presence within the exhibition sets up a potential dialogue between the screen and space.
![[thumbnail of Axis Arts Centre Open Space Gallery]](https://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/9045/1/wholegallery.jpg "Axis Arts Centre Open Space Gallery")
![[thumbnail of View of Still Airfix (2010) & It Was A Strange Affair (2010)]](https://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/9045/2/redprojectionboxes2.jpg "View of Still Airfix (2010) & It Was A Strange Affair (2010)")
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![[thumbnail of Eurofighter (2010) Gold leafed model]](https://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/9045/3/eurofighter1.jpg "Eurofighter (2010) Gold leafed model")
![[thumbnail of The Ghost of Past Crashes (2010) 9 photographs of aeroplane crashes]](https://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/9045/4/ghostsofpastcrashesall.jpg "The Ghost of Past Crashes (2010) 9 photographs of aeroplane crashes")
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![[thumbnail of The Model II (2010) sculpture made from Airfix]](https://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/9045/5/modelandeurofighter.jpg "The Model II (2010) sculpture made from Airfix")
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