90cm x 180cm x 160cm
Stainless steel
This colony of ‘barnacles’, pressed and fused from polished stainless steel, appears at first as solid as a pebble on the beach but on close inspection present a perforated or ‘porous’ structure. The material using the pressing techniques developed by the artist to take advantage of this beautiful, but highly resistant recycled material.
Associations are often made between highly polished hard metal and qualities of strength, cleanliness, beauty, perfection and therefore high value and status. Here the artist invests those qualities upon a lone, stranded, erratic boulder scale heart shaped seed. The seed; vital genetic dispersal vessel, prime actor in evolution and natural selection, is critical to our own presence on Earth. Essential, not just for our own reproduction but also in the regeneration of all the living branches of our ecosystem upon which we are dependant is often un-regarded and certainly does not hold as high a status and value as the polished metals we mine, refine, polish and wear as a badge of success. This sculpture is a champion for those trillions of smaller unseen life forms, magnified and suited in clothes that may help us to associate the vessel with its value.
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