mixed media in domestic box shelves
A work in progress - is it ceremonial costume? Is it armour? Detritus from a dying world, repurposed technology and designer packaging, handmade knitware, radiotherapy mask and pill packets.
grey sections torn from art magazines taped to the wall and in a frying pan on a record turntable with the Staff of the TechNomad, a stick wound with plaited electrical cables.
Cover of benjamin_sanguine album 'Hidden Treasure': Assemblage of found objects including driftwood, shells, boxes, old coins, antique watch, jewellery, all on a record turntable.
Seaglass in glass coffee jar
With the assistance of artist Duncan Ward (www.theoldjoys.com) a set of crowd management barriers were photographed in various London locations. They controlled and directed the public for no reason at all. Some people were completely unawre, some were cautious, and other people responded to them in curious ways. The barriers became a 'frame' to the unconscious actions within.
I had tried to borrow barriers from banks and post offices but no one would lend them. I ended up buying them at cost from the manufacturer Tensator. They were extremely heavy and at every point of public transport we were challenged thinking we had stolen them - thankfully I was carrying the purchase paperwork. And our arms ached so much by the end.
They remained in my posession for some months, around the house, until we moved and then I put them on Ebay. They sold to a man from the midlands who ran a golf centre.
These groups of works respond to the megastructures of cities through consumer packaging, personal objects and capitalist detritus. Circuit City is built from redundant computer parts, LCD displays and CDs; Polystyrene City starts out as a pristine white structure of obelisks and industrial temples and gradually acquires tape highways and media images and slogans, before undergoing it's apocalypse of fire and erosion; City models, classical labyrinths and tombs, inviting doorways to an outside world, a semi-autobiogragpical Tale of Two Cities, and a Tower of Babel.
Line and tube interventions; icons and tribal ornaments.
For childrens parties I have made creative play environments out of cardboard boxes and other waste materials. These have included trains, castles and space stations. They are fun, safe and totally destructable! And only limited by their imagination.
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