Just as I'm preparing to embark on the next phase in the 'Fragility Spheres' installation I came across this article on BBC News online.
This Spheres project has been ripening in my mind over the past months - or should I say couple of years, since I made the first sphere back in the summer of 2012 - and the concepts involved have matured and evolved enormously. The importance and power of the 'object' has become an important element/concept in the installation, hence the link to the article below. I shall expand on the whole project further in a subsequent post; for the purpose of this post I want to focus on the idea that an object becomes precious as/when we begin to gain consciousness of its history, its own story. We surround ourselves with objects, indeed as a sculptor I make objects (bring them into this world) all the time. And if these are not to be, or become, clutter, they must be endowed with a significance - the world is so full of meaningless clutter!
The power of the object:
When time stood still: A Hiroshima survivor's story,
via @BBCNewsMagazine www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-28392047
