Manifesto rumblings
I imagine objects which speculate on alternative, parallel and future worlds.
Sometimes I make them.
Sometimes they come, uninvited, and hang in my mind, asking to be made. They are the best ones. I try to oblige.
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I fantasise about objects that in shinto-esque fashion have themselves become narrators.
Or companions.
Exploratory research fragments are treated as work in their own right and the anima of everything is held in sacred regard.
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By liberating associations, meta-objects emerge that may be considered part of an emerging paradigm, beyond the rupture of modernity and as yet undefined.
Hybridities from from pan-societal fragments that become gestures of an ideal of post-globalist unity.
Perhaps they belong to entanglement.
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Objects that are ambiguous are able to give a commentary on ‘other’;
the other than known; the other than understood, the other than this.
By citing varied influences; traditional pattern and form, I am weaving a syntax which aims to communicate something, perhaps the flux state of the times, perhaps the potential for a different world.
Appropriation is exchanged for an object based mind-map of trans-global, trans-cultural connectivity.
Things are a means of connection.
I view function as culturally and temporally subjective.
‘Use’ becomes a device, giving rise to questions; Who? Why? How? When? and Where?
Without context, the object becomes new again. Available to discovery and free interpretation.
They become world-bridging devices offering the potential to cross from the known and understood to an elsewhere as yet still in flux.
- Leora Honeyman 2023
Stretching the capacities of materials, delicacy and fragility gives a sense of wonder, contributing to the chimeric quality of the works.
The embedded languages of functional objects...