Against the sun going down over the shops and the cars and the crowds and the town are playful reflections on human civilization, collective futures, worldviews, and the precarious act of seeing.
The series of sculptures consists of ordinary objects cast in grey concrete, an amorphous material that has shaped global urbanism for centuries. Universally recognizable, the objects defy cultural specificity, class or gender; a plastic water bottle, a computer mouse, a roll of paper tape, a light bulb, a banana, or an extension cord. As solidified traces of present-day material culture, the artifacts are stacked in accidental clusters held together by dripping, colored mortar. The casual application of the mortar evokes the approach of a bricoleur in which the use of a ‘modern’ material escapes the realm of planned and structured logic.
When the lights are turned off, the sculptures glow and transform from ordinary objects to images unveiling hidden visual layers. They shift from everyday objects to fleeting images, blurring the line between form and representation, history and perception. The painterly brushstrokes and mortar reveal shifting tensions of visibility and obscurity, inviting a deeper reflection on how mundane objects carry complex cultural meanings beyond their immediate function.
