This work is a comment on the domestication of the human. I use the everyday object as a metaphor for our domesticated selves. This works spider-like form represents the more primitive beginnings of the human. The domestic sink i see as also representing the element of water, where all life originated according to the theories of evolution. This sink sculpture was exhibited with other domestic hybrid objects in a house-like setting and played the part of one of the members of a 'family'. The sink i see as playing the teenager of that family, between stages of metamorphosis, neither an adult or a child and self-conscious of its changing body.
Thursday, 15 March 2007
Hydrophobia - 2005
This work is a comment on the domestication of the human. I use the everyday object as a metaphor for our domesticated selves. This works spider-like form represents the more primitive beginnings of the human. The domestic sink i see as also representing the element of water, where all life originated according to the theories of evolution. This sink sculpture was exhibited with other domestic hybrid objects in a house-like setting and played the part of one of the members of a 'family'. The sink i see as playing the teenager of that family, between stages of metamorphosis, neither an adult or a child and self-conscious of its changing body.
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This piece is fantastic - as is all your work. There's a wonderful sense of the uncanny - reassuringly uncomfortable.
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