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| Sanctuary: Renewal, 2007 mixed media, 22x64x14" |
In my work I've been thinking a lot about things that are revered - what do we choose to honour and why, and how do certain symbols or objects come to have such significance. In a more recent body of work, I used medieval altarpieces as a starting point, but combined that with my own interest in the natural world and a more holistic and environmental sense of connectedness. When presented in a certain way, every day object and discarded items can take on an aura of importance and meaning. In Jungian philosophy this can be referred to as an 'archetype', while in other, older writing, objects became symbols for ideas and processes in a language that was really only meaningful to the initiated. This is where the title, 'Alchemy & ordinary things' comes from. While as a scientific possibility, alchemy is of course rather foolish, when re-contextualized as a philosophy of life and death and reproduction it becomes more interesting.
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| Time to Gather Stones, 2007 mixed media, 12x18x3" |
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Chalice, 2007 mixed media 16x26x6" |
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| Remembering, 2007 mixed media, 5x9x1" |
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