Sharon Read MA
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A collection of 101 handmade boxes repurposing wood from industrial pallets. These every day and often overlooked industrial items have been transformed from their functional workhorse role to one of quietness and contemplation.
Installed:
School of the Arts Degree Exhibition
University of Northampton 2015
The Old Truman Brewery Brick Lane London
Free Range Graduate Art and Design Exhibition 2015
Ash and remnants from a series of burnings make up the contents of each box. These burnings are a way of disposing of and transforming particular documentation and items that the artist feets either a distinct connection with or conversely identifies them as intrusions to everyday living. The burnings offer catharsis in terms of identification with the process of burning; recognising the evocative physical and visual effects as well as a metaphorical transformation of the physical. The intentional energy is taken out of matter leaving remnants that hint to the idea of change residue and absence.
The Boxes are unsystematically arranged not only allowing for small glimpses of the symbolic contents; the artists private interiorised dialogue, but also allude to the lack of control that is experienced as illnesses, diseases and physiological conditions play a continuous part in daily life.
Using the external measurements of her body and further repurposing industrial materials a box has been created to human scale and proportion. The purpose of this particular sized box is to create a container that makes the connection between human form and existence. The philosophy lies within the enquiry and questioning of the physiological external self and the emotional psychological interiorised self; the existence of life and death.