So I have been busy with needle and thread and have had fun experimenting with creating a 'soft sculpture', there will be images at some stage. In the last few days left of making week I have decided to concentrate on my wall of curiosity. Inspired by the Hunterian's collection of human remain preserved in jars. Originally used as medical research they are now more like the curiosity cabinets of the 18th Century. I wanted to make a series of small sculptural pieces of mixed media and have them displayed on the way, using plastic, the kind you would use on an over head projector, bent round them. Hopefully this will imitate their being in jars, even though they will not be and restrict the view with the intention of changing the context in which they are seen. Still haven't decided about how I am going to label them, if at all yet. In the mean time here are some of the artists I have been looking at this morning.
Above is Bill Woodrow's
Clamp Made in 1986
Interestingly enough it was made in the 1980's 'when found or discarded objects were ingeniously reused and en chanced.' They were seen as a positive symbol of recycling and regeneration, in an era of consumerism. So what goes around comes around, this time it's not consumerism but recession that makes invention the mother of necessity.
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