archelogy

work in progress


It's amazing how often I came across the term archaeological whilst doing the research for this project. Here are some quotes from some of the artist I looked at The first if from Christine Borland, "it is difficult to retrace accurately the outer look of the living. Let alone a detailed personal history that makes up a life." She was looking at the work of forensic science in trying to rebuild facial imagery of those victims of crimes that have still to be identified.

Here are three quotes from Aileen Kieth talking about some aspects of her sculptures ' The way specific memories are put together like jigsaw pieces' and 'filing away fragments of events or conversations in the creation of a kind of personal archeology', 'like a collection of fragemts snapped off from a once whole entity'.

The last one has particular relevence to me as I see those organs in jars of fragment of the whole. All that is left of the human being they once belonged to. The only personal history you know of the person if the illness they had, thier propable cause of death. And they have changed due to the way they have been preserved.

The forms I am creating form these initial images are tranforming other found objects are beging added and this seems a natural direction in which to take the work.