Friday, 27 March 2009

Endings and beginnings



I like this piece,it reflects a kind of ending or begining, like the empty cocoon of some creature that has emerged to a new life. But what is it? What might that new begining be like? Real beauty in the cast off skin, the left behind shell, the protective layer that is no longer required. Seems appropriate for the term, the season, the future.. Wonder if I'll fly, or crawl, or swim in this new world. Whatever, it won't be the same as before. Time to reflect, to ponder, to imagine, to look, to gaze, to draw. To do nothing.

Tuesday, 10 March 2009

internals


Another image from her collection, again demonstrating a labyrinth of images that suggest internal organs, intestines, innards. You can image it working, pumping fluids around its system, moving with the rhythm of the activity, almost mesmerising.

a body of work

Jennifer Taylor's most recent sculptures depict chaotic messes of interlinking pipes, chains and disposable objects coated in white paint and wax. Cancer cells, labyrinths and internal organs are just some of the images that spring to mind when looking at these troubled objects. Might use some of this imagery in developing this project, and it may compliment the ideas I have started to develop already.
I'm interested not only in the external body but on the internal, the unconscious, the hidden. This applies equally to the organs and the mind. In fact it creates a morass of images that could be dreams, flashbacks, imagination, or fantasy. Or bits of them all.