I just discovered Dorothy Cross, and feel really inspired by her work. looking at her work has got me thinking about embodiment and disembodiment. She explores fragmentation of the body in a way that seems to skip over the abject and into reverence, but in a very subtle and quiet way that takes inspiration from the opulence of reliquaries and shrines in her use of materials, but avoids directly referencing it.
I started to wonder - which is it that truly interests me in my work, and what am I questioning? Is my work about the sensation of being truly embodied, sensory exploration and the experience of being a breathing, pulsing human? Or maybe it is a question of anonymity, of the base quality of the human organ, and the intriguing, mysterious banality of humanity.
As I write these things, neither reduction of my work really feels right, because those descriptions seem to be more about product than process, and for me the importance is more in the making, and the roots of the process. The roots of the process lie in ritual, anthropology, tradition, history, the similarities between plant and human life.
Silver Dishes, 2015
Rugby Ball, 2005
Hand and Foot, 2017
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