Home
2008 - Installation

This work challenges the viewer to think about what home is for them; to me it is typified by protection, warmth, security and comfort. In this work I seek to highlight these qualities that are imbued in the materials, challenging the viewer to consider their own relation to and associations of the home.

Radiators are a symbol of these qualities; through repetition, excess and exaggeration I aim to highlight these attributes. Using materials familiar to most people that they should relate to, the radiators are a symbol of what the home is and what is contained within the home; protection, warmth, security and comfort.

Skirting boards also have a removed use and absurd repetition, alongside the other wood it combines in creating a new shell in which to hold its contents. By removing the objects in purpose and applying them in a new configuration the viewer sees what is mundane in an extraordinary way, highlighting the comforts of our modern homes. The strangeness of their removed place and purpose helps the viewer consider their own home and its comfort and the degree of necessity within that familiar space.

Home was intended to be in this situ; having ample space around it sets it asides as a separate room. The absence of a ceiling means it is impractical & incomplete, enabling it to be viewed from above as you can do in no home. It is this shape as the materials afford for an interesting outline that escapes the typical right-angled box in heightening its peculiarity.