Instead of following the project work, after the Christmas holidays I decided to return to the more conceptual work I'd been doing with the screws and once-weres. I continued to take electronic appliances apart - items including headphones, a walkman, and then later a washing machine and a computer.
I found that out of all the ways of displaying the small sculptures, this fashion creates a sense of blank space around them, which draws attention to how little space they actually occupy. This is especially notable when the piece has a title such as 'Washing Machine'.
Beyond the therapeutic nature of disassembling formerly functional, the act of taking something as cumbersome as a washing machine was an opportunity to glimpse into an unknown part of our daily life - millions of people own these things, and hardly any of them will have seen the inside of one.
It is with this in mind that I now present the final sculptures, tiny and void of the density with which they used to occupy space.
I would say that displaying the sculptures in one row is a more effective way of drawing attention to their lack of body, and when they are spread out and given a larger background the effect can be increased tenfold.
How much I wish to explore this remains undecided, however I do wish to continue experimenting with displaying the screws in different manners, to investigate how to manipulate the perception of the space surrounding them.
