Hybrids, 2015
at the 44 degrees exhibition.
Art can change a person perspective on a subject. Using the everyday experiences, you witness. Their minor details, the quick moments you miss through out your day. A persons emotions and changing feelings about the world we inhabit. This constant fascination with the world around me has left me engaged with building humanity in my vision. These aspects from the everyday are used to build an impression of the reality I inhabit. Using my feelings about our world to inform the outcome of my work.
These forms have no identity. They appear robotic or alien in their form. However, they are inspired by the constant flow of people passing you in a city, they are everyone surrounding you. They are the blank stares and death smiles around you. They are the crowd of people you are lost in. When I was younger I felt out-casted from my peers, I was an outsider, a loser. I felt like no one cared. In reality you’re surrounded by people, mostly people whom only look towards their own goals. The sculptures are isolated from our reality. As art intends to bridge the gap between the real world and your imagination, the sculptures draw you into their own realm of isolation and self-reflection.
Sometimes you just need to stand still and look at the world. How can anyone communicate with anybody unless they pause for a second? Art is a visual language; once your eye witnesses it, you’re drawn towards it. My art is my statement. It is an international language to communicate with the world; it allows me to construct an image of my imagination and a world to get lost in.
I use my camera or a pencil to capture these moments we would not usually pay any attention to. I further translate these images in to sculpture; sculpting the forms in an expression of their being. The once human forms turn into something unfamiliar but understandably human.
Architecture is the result of our human need to build. It commands the space of a city, adapting how we consider the way in which we function within that particular environment. This is replicated within my work by constructing sculptures that manipulate the way you view them. Through its size and the way it occupies the space its positioned in. Architecture is important to the creation of my work, typically using methods and materials common in the construction of buildings and man made structures in my sculptures. This enforces the connection between humans and the built objects that surrounds us as a society. I must build my work because we, as a race, have a human desire to build.
Just how much detail is really needed for humanity to connect with something and realise its another human being?
Made using OSB2 Wood boards.
Hybrids at the Free range exhibition, The old Truman brewery, Brick lane, London.
Hybrid at the FBA Futures exhibit, The Mall galleries, London.
