Deborah Sleeman
I continue my search for gaps in which to create a dialogue between the intangible connections and commonalities of people and the natural world: to explore the animate and inanimate as integral rather than separate entities and the embodied meaning of objects and their connections to life, place and otherness.
SOS is an ongoing response to that intersection and our insistence on privileging ourselves before the rest of existence.
The STONES that sit with them continues my fascination with the spirit of the object; the idea of the gradual instant of becoming rock , their geological veracity and the Geiger counter that amplifies their faint breathing even after 50,000 years.
Human memory is encoded in the air currents, the river sediment and the towering mountain range…. We long for place but place itself longs.
SOS, 2018-2026
Slip cast porcelain, muslin, bones, lead
Dimensions various
SOS, 2018-2026 (detail)
Slip cast porcelain, muslin, bones, lead
Dimensions various

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