This is an analogue simulation of 3D printing processes. Using traditional modelling techniques it is equally a lament and a pseudoscience; an elegy to the loss of craft and to bio-technical paranoia.
With global digital transactions no longer necessitating anyone actually 'being there', modern replication devices may fulfil the deranged, impossible ambitions of 1950s sci-fi medical industrial antagonists. Here, it may be absurdly regarded as the best approximation of that unfulfilled, utopian futuristic fantasy: teleportation.
As matter is transferred from one point to another without traversing the physical space between them, the artist and sculptor may now fully reside in the Uncanny Valley. This piece ultimately remains a virtual sculpture with an incomplete end. It exposes equally a formalist portrait subject and the encoded conduit systems that shall account for its second coming.
For this is the Artist's mortality salience, a defence mechanism against the ultimate inevitability of complete technical redundancy.
high density rigid foam
70 x 50 x 22 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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