Exhibition at Helston Museum Gallery, 2013, with over 100 small assemblage works
List of work for sale Objets-textes
In 2008 I started researching things and making small scale assemblages from found objects; driftwood, dolls, dead bees, pottery shards, contact lenses, cloth, wool, pipes, dice, eggs……. and then combining them with poetry, texts and writing.
Removing the separateness of things in play reveals their familiar and haptic potential. Writing on things begins a series of dialogues between symbol, sign, signifier and self, creating worlds of possibilities. The relationship between human subjects and objects is mutually constitutive and exploring ways in which the material itself may enunciate meaning and metaphor linked to my performance art practice in which meaning is embodied.
Using writing in combination with things that can be interpreted universally creates a paradox of particularity and indeterminate meaning. Dinggedichte are thing poems, they inter-animate adding semantic, structural and aesthetic densities which explore women, objects, theory and dialogues between…
OBJET-TEXTES Self-published book exploring the theory and process of making performative assemblage
Writing blog: Research project writing on things
