David Taylor-Jones
Wire sculpture
35cm
Title: Fox in the shadow
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Humankind’s
relationship to outside space often expresses a sense of ownership or
dominion over nature. In this context, gardens could be seen as liminal
spaces between the human and the natural; they are our outside spaces but no
matter how much we cultivate and prune them, they are also natural domains.
Sara Cunningham-Bell’s work explores the “dualisms that divide up the lived world”, while I was reflecting on this, a fox wandered into the garden. We immediately began referring to it as “our’ fox. As my ideas developed, Sue Webster and Tim Noble’s work inspired me to reflect further on the shadow sides of humankind’s relationship with nature and resources. The sculpture is a manmade fox caught in its shadow, the fox connects with ecological issues that I care about as I see us as a part of nature rather than apart from it. |
“ My most significant experiences during OFCAD involved my felt-experience of making art ... As a therapist and a writer, I now want to extend this into visual art and see how far that takes me in communicating aspects of being that cannot be expressed with words.”