The works in the series Helle Schattenwelt (Bright Shadow World) are made from the found detritus collected on everyday walks. These walks, to and from work and back and forth to the studio, physically map the artists everyday habitat and the collections of stuff that are made along the way form a map of the local terrain at a particular time.
The collecting is a form of participation in the landscape and a form of presence in the journey that is memorialised here in the resultant constructed plastic botanical specimen.
Each piece becomes a finely crafted memento but also a significant component in a larger imagined taxonomy that taken to extremis can become a linguistic system so nuanced and complex that it can warp the walk into a hunt and obscure the land itself. The world is a bright shadow. A World Wide Web. Helle Schattenwelt (petit modèle) #1 is a small diagrammatic lived representation of this process.
silver plated bronze from cast original found objects hand tapped together. A/P (of an edition of 5)
20 x 10 x 10 cm
Finalist
Judges of the 2013 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize: Nick Mitzevich (Director of the Art Gallery of SA) and Professor Ian Howard (College of Fine Arts, UNSW).
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