I had the pleasure of installing three percent 3% at Brenda May Gallery during the exhibition Sculpture 2013.
Statement:
3% might seem a small amount.
+/- 3% is the per annum economic growth our governments encourage, to “ensure” jobs and to maintain our lifestyle.
The reality is though, that a 3% per annum growth, leads to is a doubling of the original value in 20 years!
This works uses sticks, alligator clips and cotton thread installed into a swelling in the wall to explore this reality and its implications. By using sticks, an object with low economic value a thing grown by a tree, together with the grasping hold of alligator clips bound with red cotton thread, three aspects of our relationship with nature are exposed:
That which we discard and regard as valueless : sticks…………………
That which we dig out of the ground and turn into shiny consumables : metal…………………
That which we grow from the earth to turn into consumables : cotton………………..
The upright and parallel-like arrangement of the sticks evokes the arrangement of a forest as it ebbs and flows in density and intensity; the growing sparseness along its outer reaches: changes in landscape… and endings…
three percent 3% is a work that evokes the beauty and tragedy of our modern situation.
Can our planet cope with our demands?
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This work was first installed at Line of Sight see here
Sculpture 2013 at Brenda May Gallery dates were: 23 January — 9 February 2013
