plant hybridisation

very excited to get started with my sculpture for the upcoming group show at Dianne Tanzer Gallery. for the first stage i've collected together the basic materials that i'm planning to work with and commenced assembling them to see how to make them work.

a whole lot of electrical components harvested from hard rubbish

the ensemble of materials for this sculpture (at this stage) will be electronic components, plywood, artificial grass, fluorescent lights, speakers and living plants. this is a reflection of the materials used in the sculpture prewood_postwood (2009) that prompted my inclusion in this show.

at this early part of the process i'm just looking to see what elements fit together, a very intuitive trial and error experimentation with composition. i quite like the way these materials work together, i find them very pleasing to look at and for me atleast, they stimulate a few ideas as well. in a way, this first step is just confirming my choice of materials. next step will be working out how to integrate the components together so that they become more hybridised, blurring the line between where one elements ends and the other begins - a reflection of the conceptual approach of my current research into the ambiguities and difficulties in the relationship between nature and culture.