Studies In Self Healing 9 (Air)
2017Air plant, nails removed from artist's studio barn walls, wire.
From an ongoing series of small-scale sculptures and collage conceived during a period of chronic illness.
Themes of fragility, value, and transformation are explored through works that make use of primitive, natural materials. They reference a mythic world of pre-modern artifacts, talismans and alchemy – a faith in ritual and self-healing.
These objects and collages can be read both as intimate portraits of the artist’s experience and more widely as symbolic explorations into humankind’s psychological states.
- Dimensions: 9.5 cm (h) x 16.5 cm (w) x 7.5 cm (d)
- Contexts: Arts in health , Project , Research , Studio practice
- Artforms: Environment , Mixed media , Sculpture
- Tags: Chronic fatigue, illness, psychological landscapes, plant, impossibility, sculpture