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Helen Marsh Tel 07795 123818 |
I use the tool form, therefore, as a vehicle to translate a period of change. The process used to create the time based installations are also apparent to the concept behind my work, in combination with the use of a variety of clays, which allow scope to work. Each stage uniquely provides a spontaneous alteration to occur, initially during a water-based erosive period, later concluded by an intense high firing process, where all alterations are captured as a moment in time. These processes enable qualities of cracked, rusting, aged surfaces, combined with fragility and translucency of other materials to be apparent in my work. On mass these each contribute to installations, which depict the successive stages of decay and erosion, occurring over a period of time. |
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A specific and personal interest of mine has been the eroding
tool form. One of my first memories is spending long periods of
time, delicately cleaning tools which hang in the garage, to help
reverse and avoid the erosive period. In contrast however, research
concludes archaeologists and historians find the eroded tool form
essential in their historical studies. These small fragments and
dry, flaky surface qualities, can piece together a whole history
of a tools functional past, coherently combined with the origins
of those who once used it.
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