“Horses”
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These three pieces can currently be seen at The Doorway Gallery. Click here for more...
“A Lot Meant”
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“A Lot Meant” is an outside sculptural composition consisting of a raised vegetable patch like those usually seen on garden or community allotments. The composition includes sculptural organic forms and planted vegetables.
The installation piece is about the advances in science and technology regarding cloning tissue, growing organs and reproducing limbs, of transplanting and replacing organs and limbs in the future of medicine.
A vegetable patch is a metaphor of the human life cycle with seasons of growing, ripening, reproducing and ageing.
Through technology steering and controlling every aspect of our lives we have grown distant to nature and yet we are still governed by cycles, seasons in our life, our mood and wellbeing dependant on weather and sun.
Just like gardens we need protection, good nutrition, care and time to fully grow to our potential, to bear fruit, reproduce and contribute.
“Travelling Birds”
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The installation piece is a comment on the phenomenon of migration and immigration and was inspired by a newspaper article about migrant species of birds, parrots that change their habitat, original home countries and adapt to become a part of the local scenery in their chosen new destinations in London and rest of Europe.
The effects of migrating are immense and varied. What is it like being a part of a flock, herd? Trying to merge, succeed, coexist still holding on to unique and characteristic to the home country traditions, styles and habits.
The experience of being perceived as identical, similar, judged and valued by the identity you are irreversibly born into. Discovering worlds within worlds, emerging hierarchy, trying to avoid generalisation but becoming a nomad coming from a settled community, a traveller evaluating gains and losses, experiencing tension between longing and belonging.
If as is said ’life is a journey’ migration amplifies that experience due to constant changes and lack of even superficial safety, becoming a life perched on a welcoming branch.
“A Narcissus Moment”
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In our image obsessed era the tale of Narcissus, the boy who by chance came across his reflection in a pond and promptly fell in love with it feels appropriate and contemporary, both in the story it tells and the thinking behind it.
Children are mesmerised by mirrors and they are shamelessly glued to them making faces, experimenting, pressing their noses against them, not being at all afraid of deformation, or of playing with their reflection. Puddles, glass tables, car windows - all can do the trick. As we grow up we seem to lose this ‘playfulness’ becoming more critical and demanding of ourselves. Looking silly and unattractive does not seem as entertaining as we grow older.
We are so aware of our image that we tend to approach the mirror composed and prepared for what we might see. The experience of catching a glimpse of ourselves, say in a shop window, at a different angle, light and mind frame than that with which we normally contemplate our reflection is a surprising one. We are caught unprepared and a morsel of discomfiting truth is revealed.
Just as flowers lure insects with colours and shapes, the piece lures the unsuspecting visitor via the beauty and elegance of water lilies. The purpose is to give them a ‘Narcissus Moment’.
