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Title
: Achievement Dimension
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L 40 cm x W 27 cm x H 41cm Material :
Ropes, tiles, wood Meaning :
Harnessing nature, imitating nature. Cloning, the battle to be dominance over
nature. What is
nature, what is natural. Habitats are lost everyday and replaced by luxuries
replicated the 'natural life' but a cleaner more orderly version of human life.
Loss of touch with nature. A journey of life.
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Title
: Black
Death Dimension :
L 26 cm x W 15 cm x H 71cm Material :
Mixed Media, metal & plaster Meaning : Destruction has no permanent death. Even in the process of
creation, something is being destroyed. In so many encounters with technology,
whose birth has been much heralded, people have sought convenience and self
righteousness over understanding and compassion for fellow beings and other
organisms. No matter how we try to stave off death of our body, our cells
through technology, some thing some how in some way dies.
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Title
: Burning
Ball Dimension :
L 20cm, H 42cm Material :
Silver Wire & Crystal Meaning :
The core of the earth, it's essence is burning hot, vibrant and dynamic, The
earth's energy both provides and consumes. Concurrently this sculpture also
symbolises the human mind : our minds are always active, burning with new ideas
and old thoughts pressed with fresh memories and crushed with the old experiences. This process is in a
constant state of flux forever contained within a constant vessel, the human
body to which the essential form remains. All these thoughts and energies
remain with us to our deaths.
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Title
: Convenience Dimension :
L 14 cm x W 10 cm x H 37cm Material :
PVC pipes, plastics. Meaning : Our lives are coated with plastic. We seem blind to the cold
hard consequences of the interesting inventions we use to improve our lives. We
crave permanence of beauty. But beauty is organic like the earth, ever
changing, crumbling disintegrating. From winter there is always spring. Humans
ought not be fools isolating ourselves from nature and seek comfort in a cheap,
cold, inelastic imitation of nature.
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Title
: Define
It Dimension :
L 45 cm x W 38 cm x H 72cm Material :
Plaster, cement, mild steel, wires, rod and bricks. Meaning :
War zones are created by man. They can occur between nations, between races,
between persons and internally one self and one's environment. What is the
competition for? Is it for the benefit and greater good of mankind or is it
schadenfreude : pleasure from the misfortune of others? More often than not
people create and live in their cocoon of self destruction rather than their
own happiness. We limit ourselves and create positive and negative distinctions
with barbed spaces between people.
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Title
: Dream
of Clouds Dimension :
L 41cm, H 72cm Material :
Metal, Plaster, marbles, glitter Meaning : Mother Earth moves and
weaves her spell on us earthlings. Where
do we find ourselves? our ideas of primacy, of the individual choice over
pre-ordained destinies; contact and conflict with the material world and
natural world.
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Title
: Execution Dimension :
L 20 cm x W 10 cm x H 34cm Material :
Metal and wood Meaning :
Small yet effective, a blade has revolutionised human life as we know it. From war to harvesting great tracts of land.
Armies and menacing modern corporate strategies are all embodied in a blade. A
clean slicing of nature's landscape, large swaths of nature's defense has been
scalped off with man made creations like that of genetically modified food. Surgical
blades, fan blades, propeller blades – they are all tools to profit from
nature.
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Title
: Green
Clouds Dimension :
L 31cm, H 91cm Material :
Plaster, wood Meaning :
The dreamscape of nature on earth that existed and give rise to our
imagination. The lightness of earth and delicate touch of nature in shaping the
face and depths of earth, beautifying and scarring it's face. Our very
existence as creatures has been moulded by nature.
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Title
:
Happy
Ending Dimension :
L 21 cm x W 18 cm x H 70cm Material :
Metal, stone and wood base Meaning:
Understanding the inner wavelength and energy of nature allows us to
synchronise our body systems and evolve into more finely tuned persons. The
Dance of Evolution is one of the great mysteries of nature. Why? How? Is it by
will that we evolve or by nature's intention? What drives the rhythm of
evolution?
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Title
: I
ride on your back but you can't ride mine Dimension :
L 41 cm x W 27 cm x H 71cm Material :
Metal & motar Meaning : We
are all animals yet some how we have developed it into an art form. From
dependence to co-operation to one-upmanship Where did we find the inspiration
for our instability and our need to exercise authority?
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Title
: Intelligent
Life Decaying Dimension :
L 39.5 cm x W 28 cm x H 41cm Material :
Copper, Wood, Plaster Meaning :
People are becoming individualistic and spoiling their own social life, family,
mentally when they colour their life with “Sour grape” thoughts. The universe
is indifferent to what we do to ourselves. Or is it? When we look at nature, we
do not want to see barrenness & decay – we want lush greenery, we are
inherently drawn to water; likewise we only want cheerful people swimming
around us and we secretly expect it of people but yet we ourselves refuse to be
cheerful on our own accord.
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Title
: Life's
a Bitch Dimension :
L 75 cm x W 12.5 cm x H 12cm Material :
Wood Meaning : It
is not easy to find happiness, to be happiness personified. We are all
condemned to die since our creation in our mother's wombs. Many obstacles lay
strewn across the way. Despite the uncertainty and futility of life we must
develop the integrity to improve, to have the will to survive different drawers
of life.
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Title
: Man
Peacock Dimension :
L 39 cm x W 31 cm x H 81 cm Material :
Metal, wood, plaster Meaning :
Man constructs fantasies of himself. From a simple being, Man has managed to
complicate life and his outlook in life with societal idealisms & customs.
Simplifying life seems impossible because our common sense is clouded by
turmoil. Man seems to worship himself as being one of the most adaptable
creatures in nature. Are we nature's best, most intelligent creation?
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Title
: Mr
President Dimension :
L 40 cm x W 24 cm x H 52cm Material :
Measuring tape, alabaster, cement, metal, wood. Meaning :
Measurement of self worth, how do other people measure up? Capabilities and
abilities. Decisions are made by scholars, most sitting in an office with no
contact to the real world, not experiencing the problems of millions. Those
decisions that affect the masses are rolled out to people like toilet paper and flushed down the
population's throat, after which not a thought more is spared to the matter. One
wonders if top brasses have their hearts and minds connected to the very people
who put them in positions of power.
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Title
: My
Summertime Dimension :
L 41 cm x W 20 cm x H 57cm Material :
Mixed Media collage Meaning :
Summer escapades and fond childhood memories almost always involves nature. A
drawer full of memories of the beckoning great outdoors. In our concocted
dreams no matter how old we are, we are our most comfortable and youthful when
we run uninhibited into the arms of nature, the nature of our dreams.
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Title
: Orbit Dimension :
L 37 cm x H 91cm Material :
Metal, spray paint. Meaning :
Decisions made from a meeting under one roof. Message passed down from the
vertical hierarchy: one head to several heads are usually distorted. The real
meat of discussion is always behind colourful smoke screens, so much
spin-doctoring goes on without the masses ever knowing it.
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Title
: Seismic Dimension :
L 22cm, H 61cm Material :
Cement, pebbles, copper, stainless steel & glass Meaning :
The changing form of the earth, it's energy where does it come from? The build
up of this energy, both constructive and destructive. Will this energy ever run
out? Will we expire should the energy expire? Will mankind and all species
unite for the embrace of earth?
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Title
: Sun
& Moon Salsa Dimension :
L 40.5cm x W 20.5 cm x H 39 cm Material : 2
snooker balls, plaster and wood & copper pipes Meaning:
Dance of the gravitational forces between the sun and moon. It is the
combination of the energy of both gives rise to the some of the most enigmatic
forces of nature : tides, climate
changes, warmth, life cycles. The transition of night and day are beyond our
control but we can enjoy the majestic scenes they provide.
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Title
: Terror Dimension :
L 42 cm x W 30 cm x H 92cm Material :
PVC pipes, baseball bat, hose and wood. Meaning :
Security & surveillance in the country happens when the climate of fear is
prevalent. What do we fear? After all this time, civilisations have come and
gone, oasis have turned to desert; desert to arable land, with so much done to
improve and advance lives. Why do we still have basic fears, instincts &
needs in us? Why do certain situations bring out the animal in us, should we
not be by now, a more refined human being?
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Title
: Undersea
Death Ground Dimension :
L 37 cm x W 19 cm x H 41cm Material :
Mixed Media Meaning :
Very simply, we pressure nature to outperform our expectations. We expect
miracles of nature. If it doesn't, we manipulate nature's cycles to our benefit
for the short term without a thought to the other dependants in the ecological
chain or for the long term consequences.
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Title
: What's
Going On? Dimension :
L 46 cm x W 10 cm x H 16cm Material :
Wood & String Meaning :
Can 2 heads talking over a cup of tea solve a problem or exacerbate it? Talk is
cheap, actions are dirty. At the end of the day, no hard feelings. It's just
business. Survival is now a business. A decision is often made in spirit of 'to
my convenience' rather than 'prevention now is better & cheaper than cure'.
How did problems get so vast with such far-reaching consequences?
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