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ADDRESS:
Group
Box 3-5, Hartington, Ontario, Canada, K0H 1W0
Tel: 613.374.6000
Fax: 613.374.5206
Email: shayne.dark@sympatico.ca
By
using plywood, a common type of wood that is used on construction sites, a
building product of a city I am addressing, not just a vocabulary of forms
or an exploration of a material’s possibilities, but relationships
between physical substance, perception, narrative presence, and the
confluence of social, conceptual, and natural processes. This wood relates
to the urban environment.
Twisted
and curvaceous in shape, these sculptures are made of both common and
industrial materials. In a way, the surfaces of the sculptures look and
feel raw, cut with a sharp saw and penetrated by nails.
The forms have a sense of balance between the top and bottom plates
of aluminum that is subtle and fluent. They totter and sit on their edges
and ends, balancing between being purely abstract and bearing subconscious
similarities to signs of technology. Torque is common in the world of
machines, a rotating force. Aluminum, wood and polyester resin takes on
bodily curves and become kinetic-many of these objects rock and roll.
These
structures, placed on a geometric bed of steel, are inhabited. The
movement activating the surface is an expression of the life inside it.
When the sculptural interior is alive, the life inside the work is
experienced as internal pressure. The life inside the mass has the thrust
of endless movement. The movement inside the mass is always a force of
communication.
Curvaceous, with the grace of their physique that much more realized, they are minimal metaphors that contain a world of possible readings. It is sculpture that invites rearranging.
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