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 the intimacy - it affords, skirting around the edges or periphery of BIG ideas - motif of a flirtation within those realms. 'a shift in power from the centre to the periphery' - things in the margins. This is a digital showing of a work that originated as a sculpture, now shown within the context of  'still-life' photography. The objects appear as if in a dreamscape. The materials a direct reference to contemporary life [ lifted from] The small sculpture/collages have become 'fetishised' through the isolation of the screen, existing in an ambiguous homogenized landscape. The work questions the boundaries between originality and conceptual inventions - allegorical - freezing the temporality of a narrative allowing the frozen tableaux to serve the imagination.

#smilesimulascrum Dear Simula The social theorist Jean Baudrillard argued that a simulacrum is not a copy of the real but becomes truth in it's own right. ie; the Hyperreal. Kind regards Crum Dear Crum, I take your point however may I suggest a return to a simplified aesthetic, make it more about allowing the materials to suggest the narrative? Perhaps recent works have been too overloaded - I feel they are like drawings preparing for the 'actual'. Simula #everythingisamaquette