The materiality of stuff continues to intrigue me. The juxtaposition of leather with glass, plastic and china, linen and metal etc., creates an aesthetic, which has the potential to be more exciting to me than the individual elements.
I have been working on responses to my plastic dipped found objects, and trying to identify my methodology in the early stages of a new body of work. The responses, also from found objects, have the potential for an awkwardness which is harder to achieve if I have complete control over the form of the objects I use. This need for awkwardness, clumsiness, even ugliness, is an effective counterbalance to the undesirable response of 'twee' which seems to curse jewellery so easily. Could this awkwardness be the 'dirty' that Marty St James (Professor of Fine Art at University of Hertfordshire) keeps alluding to?!
The potential for awkwardness is even greater when two responses are joined to create a third response.
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