Patient
Insulation foam, pva glue, wood, repair cement, plaster of paris
net curtain fabric, earth pigment, acrylic paint, aerosol paint
steel bar, steel trolley
120 x 80 x 95cm
2024
Patient is a faux-concrete form, from the same original modular sculpture-turned-series as Fugitive and Into the Weeds. It has a large, blue, central hollow, and some smaller, drippier hollows on its exterior. It incorporates a damaged steel medical trolley, and can be wheeled around while its steel bar legs dangle uselessly. It directly incorporates an altered found object, dented to create the performative illusion of weight, damage and collapse. The title is intended to evoke both patience and medical supervision.
It may also be relevant that a friend went into hospital nearby with a brain haemorrhage around this time, and that I finished around the time he came out.
Patient can be activated by performance, where by twirling one or more of its ‘legs’ I can produce a sustained sound, offering performative information which is as much confounding as interpretive.