Future Relics
2017-2018
Cast Hydrocal, acrylic paint, sweepings from studio floor, plaster cloth, archival glue and shoe piece, hand knit washcloth and bleach, plaster dipped clothing, plastic toy container, gold leaf, concrete tint, decomposed granite, marker and fabric.
Discarded shapes of material culture as sites of meaning are explored, obscuring and revealing what seems to be in the background. Possibilities within abstraction question familiar narratives.
The everyday offers up the abstract familiar, shapes whose first purpose has passed. Their ambiguity, both familiar and unfamiliar, questions what is seen and meaningful. Shape becomes presence and void allowing for multiple meanings and metaphor. These discarded abstractions are akin to the idea of ‘loose parts’ in children’s creativity, a theory of open-ended learning that empowers imagination and references the seemingly ‘useless’ time of play.
Installation Video: redux: sara hubbs / will bruder, 2018, Modified Arts, Phoenix, AZ