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My recent work engages with contemporary issues through my choice to use recycled plastic. The cycles of production, consumption, waste and the issue of environmental sustainability are inferred. I work with basketry techniques to express economic, political and social subversion. The time consuming process embodies the antithesis of contemporary notions of value, which are calculated as functions of time and cost.
The figurative references in the Head and Two Masks look to the past for inspiration, while the egg form is at once abstract, universal and suggests future possibilities. Both the construction and the surfaces are visually rhythmic. The mark making conveys a sense of passing time and deliberation that is textual in nature.
The two bodies of work relate to two aspects of self; the inner and the public self. My work seeks not to divide the body from the non-corporeal aspect or to privilege one over the other as philosophy and consumer culture is inclined. Rather I seek to explore interdependence; to reconcile our physical existence within the conceptual context of social and ethical frameworks.
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