Descriptive summary- Matt

From the findings of my previous sculpture and research, I aim to make new work which moves on from making visual connections, where one thing leads to the next. The last act using previous work was examining a material shift, imprinting crow bar by force onto the aluminium bottle. The result was a dent. I’m interested in this residual dent; it got me thinking about how two masses meet one another and result in a state change. There is still that idea of engulfment and consumption of form; which one has taken over the other? The object which made the imprint has intruded/imposed itself on another. As the objects forcefully meet, they are temporarily combined into a singular form, separated only by their chemical make up. Only removal of one object returns them back to a new singular state, however there is one or two altered forms. Resulting form could be seen as a new metamorphic object: one part one object and one part the other object. The dent is still trying to hold onto both of the original objects. This space is often void, containing no mass or materiality. It is just air, unable to assume the role of a lamp post in your blind spot or that panel beater you’ve always gone to…



I guess from these analogies of a dent, I’m going to use objects, materials and processes to make work which explores the nature of gaps and their betweenness. Metaphysically does anything touch? A simple example I can think of is how our bare feet are made up of atoms, as timber floor boards also. However, when we walk in bare feet on the floor we do not combine with it. This must mean there must be some miniscule gap/void between the atoms in our feet and those atoms of the floor boards? I aim to explore this idea of a tight void space on a larger or more representational scale. Although this atomic gap will be there (but not to the naked eye), works will hopefully talk about some of these notions in different scale, material, form.