My practise is to study and discus ‘witnessing through the camera’, the second-hand experience, by opposing these media with sculpture, with a three dimensional, analogous confrontation.
I am interested in possibility that sculpture gives to discuss mass media.

THE TROYAN HORSE PROJECT
The idea is to leave sculptures behind in the public space for the citizens to find. The sculptures are  reconstructions of images seen in newspapers or on television.

The sculptures are well made but unfinished, still in process, it looks as if someone works on it at home, a personal thing.  It is left, for example, on top of a car, a playground, bus stop, etc..

The hand-made sculpture shows patience, craftsmanship, and are tactile, has weight. They depict the same image as the camera, yet materially stand in stark contrast to their media images counterparts.

People will find these sculptures. Maybe they take it home, or bring them to the lost and found, vandalizes them, give it to someone, or a reaction  that’s beyond my imagination.

This project breaks through the normal passive relation we have with media images and shows the emotional vacuum.

08aama3731