PINS ON TREES

'AWAKEN'

Dress-making pins on a log 104cm high

This piece, made appositely for Bucheli Gallery, revolves around the idea of artificial growth. Although the aim of the piece is to describe the physical world and pay homage to Nature, it also exploits the human ambition of imitating and, often, recreating Nature itself.

My attempt here is to bring together the organic and the artificial by integrating them and, at the same time, challenge the viewer's perception of what constitutes a natural phenomena. 

The log has been enlivened by artificiality; I achieved this by presenting the viewer with a common pattern to be found in Nature, employing, instead, an ordinary object, for example a dress-making pin, and placing it within a different context.


With 'Awaken' I wanted to try to incorporate all the concepts that I learnt by doing on-site installations during my MA year at Wimbledon College of Art (University of the Arts London). I wanted to work in a more intimate, practical and accessible way; I thought I would achieve this by creating a movable sculptural object.


This installation with dress-making pins (below) was called 'The Present' and would occupy the outdoor and indoor spaces of my MA studio in Wimbledon:

Note how a spider came along and made my pins his home!