The Spider, The Fae Thing and The Witch 2024-2025
This sculpture is a representation of the 1968 Ford Dagenham, Sewing Machinist Strike, a strike that would lead to the formation of the 1970 Equal Pay Act. I find spiders to be fascinating animals, their ability to weave and sew webs of such intricate design and I relate them to motherhood. Not sure why I relate spiders to motherhood but I do, this is something I am taking time to realise and find reason behind the connection.
This work is still a work in progress and its final form will have an eerier feel to it, as though this robotic spider is coming down from the ceiling.
This work is still a work in progress and its final form will have an eerier feel to it, as though this robotic spider is coming down from the ceiling.
These two sculptures are the Fae Thing (left) and The Witch (right), they are sister sculptures to The Spider as these are representations of visual hallucinations I have, while The Fae Thing is benevolent and tends to just be a watcher, The Witch has malevolent energy and wishes to do me harm. Of course I’m aware these things aren’t real but my brain can’t help but see them as such and I find myself in fear of The Witch who waits by my window.
I experimented with new ways of displaying titles by using two large encyclopaedias tabbed at the word and definition of the titles of these two sculptures.
I experimented with new ways of displaying titles by using two large encyclopaedias tabbed at the word and definition of the titles of these two sculptures.
