Still Life with Lemons
Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: still life, studio
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Attractors / Abductors
I know very little about fishing, the last time I partook in tricking fish onto a hook, admiring them and then returning them to their watery home, was as a child over twenty years ago. I do remember finding the paraphernalia fascinating, the rods, reels, floats, tubs of maggots and of course these lures. Each one is designed to replicate the movements, colours and habits of an existing prey – injured fish, swimming frogs, surface bound drowning flies – with […]
Categories: Projects • Tags: Fetish, Fish Hooks, Lures, Objects, Project, still life, studio
Plastic Vanitas
A study after the Dutch masters of still life and the vanitas, entirely in plastic. Where Claesz and his contemporaries set out to highlight the transience of life and futility of object based wealth, this vanitas set entirely in cheap plastic considers objects, which in their organic form would be fleeting – subject to decay and the ravages of time. Their plastic counterparts, however are practically immortal, destined to outlive their owners and manufacturers in landfill. This is a most […]
Categories: Standalones • Tags: still life, studio, vanitas, work in progress
Mike Downing 