Fathom 2023
This sculpture will now be on show at the Black Swan Arts Open Exhibition 2, Bridge Street, Frome, Somerset BA11 1BB and run from the 27th of July to the 15th of September Mon-Sun: 10am – 4pm. The sculptures I'm working on are a series of new works that combine waste polychromatic foam and wax. The work has the feel of the sea where the unbelievable reveals itself as the truth. The deep sea is our inner space and a world where light begins to fade and strange forms and structures come into view. The work references deep sea vents emitting dark, chemical-rich fluid. These structural elements deep from within the Earth's core, reveal themselves and throw up questions of time, origin, and our own fragility. These fragile monumental structures can only be observed by robotic craft and then only through a monitor, or by diving in a deep sea submersible and viewed through a thick acrylic lens. All these observations give us a glimpse into a world of limited visual reference and tactile experience. "There's so much left to explore and find in the ocean," "We don't know what else lives there." George Matsumoto, a deep sea scientist. |