And my completed statement, hopefully this is OK? I didnt want to influence the viewer too much and over explain the work, when statements do this, give too much description i feel they become a little too bland, hopefully it hasn’t but it may have done…
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If you hit a rabbit whilst driving you may initially feel a sense of guilt or compassion towards the animal, unlike with the death of a human we know personally or a celebrity figure, this feeling disappears very quickly. I have attempted to freeze this moment of guilt by restoring the animals into humanistic poses through the use of taxidermy. Using a medium which is more often used to show off trophy killings, I have turned the unwanted kills into prized ones, creating a tension between the idea of preserving your prized kills and something which was in fact an accidental killing.
My work reflects the human through experimental portraiture, where human thoughts are projected onto the sculpture rather than the work taking on the physicality of human form. It brings you face to face with something physically real, a dead animal, and something which is the result of human action allowing a direct confrontation with life and our distance from the rest of the natural world. Its manipulation in to an anthropomorphised form allows thoughts of human interference with the natural to be visualised, our inability to live with what we have got and our desires to produce a new more technologically advanced state for living. My work produces an object of reflection which concerns our own lives and our state of virtual reality.”
I have also attached some pictures which i have used towards the degree show proposal, past installation views, some in a gallery setting and some in the more immersive installation setting. Obviously these dont look as polished as my pictures i have posted before as they are installation views rather than finished photographs which have been derrived from my installation.
