This
barking, snarling dog chained to its kennel combined sculpture is my response
to the Shelter theme. Evolving from accumulations of scavenged roadside
materials discarded after outliving their use, now worthless, defective, broken
and rusted. The ramshackle dog kennel is the dogs shelter, protection from
distress, botched, thrown together from scrap and broken road signs.
This domesticated animal, a freak of a brutal, raw, alienated and fragmented
society, born in captivity, its behaviour conditioned, accustomed to left
chained up tethered outside with only kennel for shelter a refuge in captivity.
A symbiosis has formed both beast and shelter have evolved from unusable
byproducts.
A
bricolage, a reconstruction and reuse of these materials to produce new
meanings and insights shelter or protection from danger or distress.
This work has a the crude, punky appearance, bodged, botched and cobbled
together. A DIY ethos that developed from being an original teenage Kings Road
punk 1976 -7, that has grown to adapting and reusing casts-off of
contemporary society, things thrown away, lost or discarded - waste.
