THE MACHINERY INSIDE THE FACTORY
I wanted the machinery itself to be of enormous scale to emphasize the lack of power that humans have against them the machines, all drawn off their own power source creating fumes that add to the hell like atmosphere inside the factory.I want the machines seem unstoppable and somehow I want them all to have their own unique style and design all fit for purpose of where they are based in the factory. Some look like claws, some look like beaks, some like spiders legs. This all adds to the horror and the theme of the factory.Engines power every piece of machinery inside the factory with tubes powering Pistons and pumps. I want the machinery to be seen to be working, all the mechanics would be on show to create more of an industrial feel and to emphasize the power of the machines themselves.
SKETCHBOOK
I wanted to create a metal sketchbook to give it an industrial feel and to place you closer to the figures that are drawn. I want you to smell the metal, feel the coldness, the rough and smooth, the creeks of the hinges and bolts, the weight Itself are like the shackles that bind Marley’s ghost in Scrooge. The drawings inside the sketchbooks show the stages of the processes that take place inside the factory. The factory is on the size that is unimaginable and would take a lifetime to see by one person. the factory is all controlled by machinery and has tracks and lifts heading to all parts of the factory to take the subjects to various rooms for purification or transformation. They enter through the main gate at the front of the factory on head clamps that are inserted through the ear canal, and then taken to the cargo drop-off where they are dropped into metal tanks, which will be taken to the sorting room. In the sorting room there are sorting arms, which then further pick out individuals to be taken to further rooms on in the factory, then from the sorting room they go to quarantine. This is where they are then blasted with the liquid cleaning solution and on they go to the masking room where the masks are attached for the pumping of the soap into their body, they are hoisted up as if the bubble ready to burst
THE NON-HUMAN PRESENCE IN THE FACTORY
I want the factory to be clear of human intervention. The only thing that runs the factory are the machines, by which I know not of their origin, they are there and I have no knowledge of where they came from. Everything in the factory sets run like clockwork, with machines looking after machines and repairing each other, toiling cogs and repairing chains. As I said the factory is not dependent on anyone or anything but itself, it is sustainable, it has its own life force to which is never ending until it has run out of things to transform.
THE STORY BEHIND THE SOAP FACTORY
In the last year I’ve been interested in the use of soap in sculpture, not just because of its abilities to being manipulated with great effect, But also because of the symbolism of what soap represents. The word cleanse has so many negative connotations especially when you talk about concentration camps or cleansing of any race by means of mass execution. My work isn’t about mass execution or the negative connotations by cleansing I use the word cleansing in a more symbolic way. The cleansing of the soul is what I’m interested I use the soap to clean and purge mankind. The factory shows the problem on a large scale of the conflict we have with each other and is fitting, that it is something we do like a machine without fault.
