Hannah

Statement of how I see the work I am making...


At the moment my thinking has come to revolve around this idea of the
functional object and what it means to be functioning. How objects are
used and how people interact with them.
With a keen interest in how objects are displayed in space and work
with their surroundings
With this in mind I am planning on creating objects that work off
existing structures and pose as functional but are not. Using the
common idea of representing the familiar in an unfamiliar way.
By playing on the audiences understanding of how a certain object
works, the ideology of object, and slightly altering it in
material/installation so there is a shift in how the object is perceived.
The audience sees an object that appears to be functioning but deep
down they know that due to the alteration of the object it is not.
It’s about deciding what I am willing to reveal and conceal. How much
information into the object am I willing to give the audience.
The audience is asked to question whether what they are looking at is
functioning in the way that it appears to.
I think this idea of the non-functioning object creates quite a nice
parallel with modernist minimalist sculpture. Useless structures that
pose to be functioning in one-way or another.

The website for the research component is:
http://uselessobjects.com/