Wounds and Bandages

This series of works aims to visualise the entanglement of humans with their environment. The combination of the materials wax and wood should express the harmony between flora and fauna through organic forms and smooth, vulnerable surfaces. This combination is extended through elements of fabric, which brings in the aspect of the human. However, similar to the pollution of the environment, the pure surfaces of the wax are disturbed by impure elements, which destroy the harmony and the positive, calming character of the work. The contemplative assemblages reflect on the mourning about the damage done to the environment but they also draw on hope by emphasising the protective associations of wax’s embalming, skin-like quality.

The works are part of an ongoing investigation into the ambivalent qualities of soft anthropomorphic abstracted forms that elicit associations of both, empathy through associations of the human body in a safe and intact world but also to death and destruction. The tension between the smooth, bodily forms and the formless, deflated, dirty parts aim to elicit an emotional confusion that leads the viewers to consciously reassess their perception and understanding of their psychological responses to the works, to their own body and to the exploitation of their own environment.