Inspired by sea-cucumbers, crabs and other marine and river/lake animals that crawl and slither on and in bottom sediments and muds, Resurrection Fragment attempts to combine the attributes of the soft living body with the hardness of steel. The choice of material is important: steel is hard and unyielding, an industrial and sculpturally recalcitrant material. These attributes are deliberately left clear and unambiguous so as to retain the 'grain' and marks of the making process. The result is a biomorphic/animate 'industrial' object. Like all abstractions the initial inspiration is only a starting-point which develops its own 'life' during the creative process. Non-representational but suggestive, it should not be seen as an image of any actual thing in particular. The low horizontal plane angled off the ground is intended to provoke feelings of a slow, difficult and tortured elevation from a prostrate position. |
