Work in progress…..
These objects are of particular interest to me as they are sculptural, have a wonderful contrast with the stones against the concrete and steel. I felt that the energy inside these objects and the life that happened on them was still contained inside them.
Sketching them in charcoal helped me to look at them a little more.
I made some impressions in the clay. This led me to think about the energy as they were forced into the air to become the rubble, forcing them into the clay. I did not at this stage want to reproduce them, just explore their shape form and texture as I considered the next step in capturing their energy.
I filmed the objects moving and still and thought about the science of the energy being displaced around them.
I rearranged the objects to photograph and sketch. Putting together each item and imagining its history – a floor painted and a light fitting that could have been used by generations, wall ties that held the house together.
Making the space negative by filling it with clay then the objects In the space are part seen and exist in a 3d shape. All related to the objects from the house. Displaying the entropy of each object The glass – seeing the before and after. To put the objects together is to disrupt the entropic process, speed it up or slow it down.
I will explore the space in and around the object and find methods of making work which help to maintain the object not encase it. This plays a part in the narrative of the object and it’s existence. It holds an energy and history of human life from the demolished house, it has a place in time as it exists in an imaginary funnel as it has a beginning middle and end.
Babs Smith Multidisciplinary Artist 