Kitchen Specimens
Over 10,000,000 bacteria fester in the
average kitchen sponge. Alarming as this sounds, in reality we live with their
presence every day without mass panic or fear. Is this because we can't see
them?
I am experimenting with the clash between
desire and disgust, curiosity and revulsion, to create uncomfortably alluring
tactile pieces. Bacterial formations are beautiful but it feels wrong to admire
something that can be such a threat to our bodies. I have translated this
invisible build up of germs into an encrusted, lavish embellishment, using
colours found in both cleaning products and dyed microbe specimens. The meeting
of clean and unclean becomes uncomfortable but strangely appealing.
The use of everyday objects in my work plays
on recognition, and leads to the ordinary becoming extraordinary. I am
re-examining the things around us- what they suggest and how we react to them.
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