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Richard Orchard Tel 07946 318475 |
I also find that when looking at modern mass produced ornaments the animals depicted within have not only become largely foreign and exotic but have also become predominantly predatory in nature, with the animals often at the top of their food chain, though the way they are depicted does not necessarily show this. The animals are often romanticised becoming sentimental, they become to some extent domesticated and no longer seem as dangerous or aggressive as they might in the wild, and in essence they become something they are not. |
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My work is based upon my observations of how animals
are used within ornamentation, though it is not how the animal
is depicted but rather the choice of animal that I find most interesting. For
it is this element that has the most influence over the feel of
a piece, with our preconceptions of what an animal is and how it
behaves playing a large part in how we feel and how we react to
the depiction of that animal. I often wondered, when I was
younger, what the animal being depicted would do if it were alive?
How it would react to its environment? And how would you make it
stay in that one spot necessary to decorate the piece?
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