I jumped right in with my first post, and realise I should have introduced myself. I've been mad busy developing my piece, so I'll try and catch up with a series of posts. First of all, here's a picture of some recent work, shown at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Oxford last year. The red spiral (Chief) is now at the Beukenhof-Phoenix gallery in Belgium, as part of their Sculptour 2011 outdoor exhibition, in case anyone wants to visit. They are both part of what I'm calling my Incarnate series, as is the new piece for Broomhill. What interests me is the fact of being embodied. It seems to me that we understand and locate ourselves in the world primarily through a mapping or projection of our bodies, and that everything we see or do or think is mediated by the particular characteristics and construction of the human body. What I am doing in this series is using specific instances or aspects of that physicality to look at it's role in the creation of myth, propaganda, fetish, identity and so on, in a style that I would call Comic Existentialism. My main man at the moment is Samuel Beckett.
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