The project started with a blue tac penis. It had been sculpted at work with incredible attention to detail and took a considerable amount of time and effort. This blue tac penis displayed and demonstrated the convergence of three themes: boredom, the workplace and creativity.This new collection emerges from the stimulus surrounding Philip's photographic life; the working environment. Elastic bands, drawing pins and telephones are those 'mundane' sculptural artefacts that become centre stage within most work places.
In this collection, Philip addresses the theme of 'Process'. Double-sided tape left exposed or holding up elastic bands - support structures that take you elsewhere. As imperfections, these elements reveal the 'undersides' of the work by accentuating the working processes involved in the creation of artificial scenes.
As an integral and necessary labour of sculptural and photographic production, Philip merges two complementary mediums in order to open a space toward a reflection on the metamorphoses of 'stationary' objects. The subject of these photographs, like Goldsworthy's 'natural' sculpture, are without permanence. A pin telephone was painstakingly disassembled; the pins returned to their pre-scribed use. Its transformation is transitory.
Exhibited
at Access Space 19.03.04 - 13.04.04.
Opening night Friday 19.03.04.