Bed
2007/2008 - Installation

My practice focuses on reusing objects and materials that have been discarded and are fragments of the former object. All materials that combined to make this piece were found and collected in and around Plymouth from September 2007 - February 2008. These fragments of discarded and disused objects are joined and combine in making a new, a whole.

This work challenges notions of necessity and comfort; the form of a bed is familiar to all in one way or another, as all need a place to sleep. Here it’s in-between state, in an ambiguous shape that hails to the transient dwellings of boats, challenge the fixed, stable image that domesticity often conjures.

Interior and exterior are used as motifs to explore oppositions of domesticity and the outside as the patchwork quilt heightens this tension. Thus the mundane and familiar are broken down into materials and used in ways suggestive of their origins and intended new purpose.

It is bound together to be more transient and for continuity; the pieces can be re-used and transported, keeping the process of use moving.