2010

Looking at a brain is uncomfortable. This small, bizarre, alien-looking organ provides us with a sense of self. It provides us with meaning and purpose - it might even be the fountainhead of the human soul. This piece is laced with incongruity and contrast. An icon of unfathomed cosmology is presented as a decorative object. An organ that is fragile, fleshy and strangely incongruous is rendered in a hard, cold material with great ethereal beauty. Light and meaning, gauche and chic, surgery and art, imagination and electricity - and all the while, we are looking at the seat of our own self-awareness.

Courtesy of Raglan Gallery