My work focuses on the inner beauty of the ‘every day’ things that adults tend to take at face value or merely overlook or make assumptions about. As adults we do not have the time to study everything we see, because through necessity, our daily regime becomes our obsession. Brancusi said ‘When we are no longer children, we are already dead’ and the young have an inquisitiveness that enables them to investigate without the prejudgements embedded in an adult.
I want to make my audience revisit their visual judgement of objects through simplification of form, disclosing new insights to the work on display. To achieve this goal with my ephemeral sculpture, I ignore the easily recognisable visual signifiers and simplify form to the bare essence, normally hidden to the casual glance. With both types of sculpture displayed on the website this process often leads to a series of forms as the simplification progresses. As Brancusi pointed out, ‘There is something more to a horse than the mere corpse.’ By ‘corpse’ he implies the naturalistic signifiers of head, torso and limbs.
The finished pieces are untitled to free the viewer from a signifier because as Rosalind Krauss suggests, the work would then become ‘inert matter impregnated with vital essence that rendered it organic.’ My intention for the viewer is that the item viewed would be open to many interpretations.
©Tillys Art 2012