Conversation between BUILD artists Louise Hodges, Philip Mayer and Stacey Righton;
S: We were talking about the similarities between our work; on a very simple level I suppose one of the similarities we have within all of our practices is the desire to change the original function of a material or object and to draw attention to things that we see and take for granted on an everyday basis.
L: I suppose, within our practices, to draw attention to things that we take for granted simply changes the function of the material or object
P: Suppose the desire to change the everyday is a function we take
for granted?
'Granted, we can desire to change everyday functions, I suppose.'
"Everyday we take for granted material or object, and changing the
original function can grant us our desire"
"Everyday, our desire to change the object or material can take the
original function further, progressing it beyond realms we would never
have anticipated from the start"
"Can we ever progress, day after day, without anticipation of change?
Is it the desire to be taken further than materialistic and objective
realms, that grant us a starting point to go beyond?"
'The anticipation of change is the desire surely? To progress from day
to day, re-valuing our materialistic and objective lives takes us
further and with time allows us to be truly present'
"If the desire to change is through object and material then, as our
day-to-day lives are reflected through these surroundings, can we ever be
truly present if they are open to constant change?"
"A change in the day allows us to value present time. Wouldn't a
reflection of ourself and own lives get lost if we were constantly surrounded
by the same objects?;'
'I think that achieving a state of presence must be possible but it is
a challenge when one is open to the knowledge that everything is in
constant change. How can these two states exist together? Surely states of
opposition do exist together, why? I can't explain it other than that
in life there seems to be a natural law or unity of opposing states,
for example, order and dis-order, or pain and joy.'
"Opposing states open and close everything"
