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.

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