A Historic Point of Interest and Other Landmarks
Continuing themes developed in Sledgmhammer.Bullet.Bomb. this also focuses on how natural disasters and accidents are inevitable but it is human aggression where we experience the loss of art, architecture and historical sites that are neither designed nor intends to be destroyed. To deliberately eradicate identity is to eradicate art and objects of symbolic meaning. We have witnessed systematic destruction of heritage as an attempt to destroy cultural diversity through religious or ideological reasoning, political agenda, activism or cultural curation. I wanted to reimagine an object that is simultaneously a symbol and protectant. When building protective barricades for fortification in front of and around culturally significant objects, artifacts and architecture they then become the new identity and description for the object they are protecting. Through the use of common art making materials: paint, canvas, marble and wood, they are reinterpreted as devices to defend, deter or lessen destruction but also form a new autonomous work to be visited, viewed and contemplated.
A Historic Point of Interest and Other Landmarks, 2016 (installation view) hand-dyed canvas, wood, paint, dimensions variable
A Historic Point of Interest and Other Landmarks, 2016 (installation view) hand-dyed canvas, wood, paint, marble, dimensions variable
A Historic Point of Interest and Other Landmarks, 2016 (installation view) paint, canvas, wood, marble
Left for Dead, 2015, latex paint mounted on hand-dyed linen, wood, varnish, 13 x 2 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches
History of Mankindness, Invention and Destruction, 2016, acrylic mounted on canvas, canvas, wood, Calcutta marble, 28 x 17 x 9 inches
Skin and Bones, 2016, acrylic mounted on canvas, wood, varnish, 19 x 15 x 2 inches
A Historic Point of Interest and Other Landmarks, 2016 (installation view) hand-dyed canvas, wood, paint, marble, dimensions variable
A Historic Point of Interest and Other Landmarks, 2016 (installation view) hand-dyed canvas, wood, dimensions variable
A Historic Point of Interest and Other Landmarks, 2016 (installation view) hand-dyed canvas, wood, paint, dimensions variable
A Historic Point of Interest and Other Landmarks, 2016 (installation view) hand-dyed canvas, wood, paint, dimensions variable
A Bunch of dum dums tried to Destroy it while I was in Charge of Protecting It 2015, 96 x 64 x 91 inches, hand-dyed canvas, polyester rope, wood, metal
A Historic Point of Interest and Other Landmarks, 2016 (installation view) hand-dyed canvas, wood, paint, dimensions variable