 Flux
hinges on the effects of climate change. It engages viewers to consider
their own immediate environment, and to contemplate the future effects
of change in a global context. The burn marks on the surfaces of the
spheres get progressively more dynamic, like the swirling mists and
scudding cloudscapes, which so often accompany extreme and tempestuous
weather conditions. The work is thought provoking, suggesting as it
does the severity of climate change and concern for the future if
change continues unabated, whilst also retaining the innate beauty
which is the world all around us. I chose clay as the medium because
of its dual quality - strong but at the same time fragile. |
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| Flux,
2004 Clay, sawdust, smoke (9 spheres, 45 cm diameter each) |
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