Claudia McKechnie

Steel, plaster, lead, concrete, wax

Bachelor of Visual Arts Furniture Sculpture Material Thinking

Steel, plaster, lead, concrete, wax

Existing within a paused process, simultaneous forward and backward movements encapsulate the object. Pushing and pulling within itself, parts of the whole fracture, tear and strip away. These fragments detach and drift before ultimately settling into furniture-like forms.

Fragments exist in an eternal state of flux between object and part, their materials possessing a cyclical nature. Liquids become solid, and with heat, become liquid again.

Fabricated in the material world objects are phantoms, which in their incompleteness, call forth other potentials or virtuals, opposed to actual forms.

These objects occupy an in-between space, bridging absence and presence, shadow and light. The spaces between are not merely empty voids, they have active agency in the creation of meaning.

The fragments encourage you to disregard their identities individually and inaugurate relationships between them. A nail drops into a pool of wax and lead, the blurring subsidies, as light falls on the work shadows are revealed.