With this sculpture I explore street life and the city atmosphere. The cheerful urban environment of London and its colourful architecture is one of the subjects and means of this work. My intention is to articulate my individual ideas in an abstract way, by using colours of paint and pigment on jasmonite, to achieve a coarse even surface as an expressionist gesture. My aim is to represent a building using chunk Lego colour portions; at the top of the structure, in the attic there is a visual representation of an office. However this structure could also be read as a plinth.
On the top of the colourful structure there is a light box painted in black with jasmonite, finished in a course surface. Inside the box, there is a found old fashioned photography of an office, obviously produced before the digital era; it is acetate photography like an advertisement. By bringing together brightly coloured geometric shapes, the blocks make a totem work; within the image, the work acquires a complex intersecting of elements, a variety of ambiguous sign. The idea of using this specific image is an allusion to the re-photographs magazine advert used by Richard Price; questioning authorship, mass media, commodity and consumerism. The representation of the work portrays an image of something outdated, exhibiting the desire for a luxury dead product, presented and displayed in a gallery space. The sculpture can be read in terms of sense of exchange and transactional aptitude between the handcrafted, and the produced readymade photography. My aim is to examine the location of the image and its function, and the cheerfulness questioning how meaning is determined, it displays and a humorous analysis of the city’s functionality.
On the top of the colourful structure there is a light box painted in black with jasmonite, finished in a course surface. Inside the box, there is a found old fashioned photography of an office, obviously produced before the digital era; it is acetate photography like an advertisement. By bringing together brightly coloured geometric shapes, the blocks make a totem work; within the image, the work acquires a complex intersecting of elements, a variety of ambiguous sign. The idea of using this specific image is an allusion to the re-photographs magazine advert used by Richard Price; questioning authorship, mass media, commodity and consumerism. The representation of the work portrays an image of something outdated, exhibiting the desire for a luxury dead product, presented and displayed in a gallery space. The sculpture can be read in terms of sense of exchange and transactional aptitude between the handcrafted, and the produced readymade photography. My aim is to examine the location of the image and its function, and the cheerfulness questioning how meaning is determined, it displays and a humorous analysis of the city’s functionality.