Aesthetic value of forms really started the balls rolling this year in my studio practice. The very fortunate for me, yet random series of events that lead for this organic form to be in my own hands highlights the importance of trusting in the unconscious. Before assessments I had been in my element; exploring, documenting and interacting with material and object. However, having this period of time where I have been out of the studio and have been less play-full and subjected myself less to these forms I feel a slight paranoia that these objects could become redundant likewise with the research and documentation I collected in Kenya. Reflecting on this now I think it could have something to do with the dialectic between my collection of documentation, very obviously intriguing objects and material forms (for example the collected and decorated gourds), in contrast to the flatter more institutionalised videos and photograph documentation. This could have something to do with the eclectic mixes of cultural values and where one culture finishes and the next one starts… how many cultures does one actually belong to? This is problematic for the contextualisation of my work. I have taken this imagery out of the context and put it into a completely polar one. The objects are now surrounded by a whole new set of cultural values, whether this be of certain individuals, or how about the idea of the institution of WSA having its own cultural identity and set of values?
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