Pristine 2017-2019
Pristine (adj)
"Immaculate, Intact, Natural, Snowy, Spotless, Sterile, Untouched, Earliest, Early, First, Original, Primal, Purified, Refined, Sanitary, Stainless, Sterilized, Taintless, Unadulterated, Uncorrupted, Undebased, Unpolluted, Unsoiled, Unspotted, Unstained, Unsullied, Untainted, Untarnished, Virginal, Wholesome"
These works came from the idea of corporeal corruptibility. How a body, a land, a person - can be considered spoiled, ruined, defiled or, alternately, preserved, kept whole, kept clean. Ideas of decay, dissolution, penetration, as well as display, preservation and perfection are investigated in tiny, shrine-like objects. Each work is very small and fragile, yet removed and untouchable on its little pedestal.
There is a ritual to viewing a delicate object. Scale and the separation of pedestals create an invisible perimeter within which we are extra aware of our mass and movements. The mirrors expose them on all sides, they are on display for us. As objects, they cannot act, they can only be acted upon.