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Unattainable Forms

Who are these red figures? You may be asking yourselves. Figures even more fleeting than we are, as if they have been drifting urgently since childhood, in a silent orbit yearning for something they never dared confront? Their identities are hinted at through the way they are positioned, each one a quiet emblem of the roles they have assumed. 

The red figures or amorphous forms are large in scale and uncertain of their own purpose. The tension created by the air bulges and shifts the overall shape of the form, leaving the memory of the form to be unreliable. Like memories of the absent, they too are unreliable. The weight and rising tension within families feels cyclical. I refer to these amorphous forms as “blobs” to suggest that this cycle will eventually collapse from deflation and dissolve into a state of nothingness, just like once before. 

I am stating a narrative surrounding unattainability in the work. The blobs are unattainable in the way they are created through production and then throughout the showcasing of their existence. The blobs take an extended amount of time to develop in the period of creation from being hand-sewn together. After the birth of the blob forms, they only exist when they are consistently filled with air. The blobs then instantly flee with any sort of wind touching their own skin. Leaving them to be volatile.

I think of the blob as an object to capture or to obtain. I use nets, spaces, and other objects to try to catch this form. I am only ever successful in the process when the blob has been deflated, and in actuality, it has been defeated. The blob finally becomes attainable, but the feeling is short-lived. I associate the unattainability of these forms with the uncertainty of all human relationships.

The blob form stands on itself by becoming its own medium. The blob does not exist without spatial context. I describe the work as unpredictable, and often at times, unresolved. Take it or leave it.