Normal, adj . usual, regular, or typical; free from mental or physical disorder
The humour and poignancy of my surroundings - whether actual, perceived or imagined - is revealed within this project.
These sculptural stories are emotional reproductions from my life; dead animals I have driven past, people I have met, and situations I have observed. They are the oddities of the human environment, all contained under the guise of “normal”. Mostly I find it intriguing, other times I find situational acceptance perplexing or just plain sad.
How is it a 100 year old tree’s foliage and structural integrity becomes secondary to the transit path of a power line? Or that the roadkill corpse of a kangaroo receives the added indignity of being spray painted once checked for live pouched young? How is it that we continue to take our urban development design cues from the handbooks of economic rationalism and not the template of natures ecosystems?
It appears that despite the definition, there is a new normal being constructed through human apathy. A normal that now defines mental and physical disorder.
The ubiquitous haze of the absurd hidden in plain sight, driving normalcy.