petvac5

Created: 2019-2020

Source: London⋅England⋅UK

Collected: 2018

This sculpture, like many of my more successful mutations, didnt have much of a strategy or end game in mind when it was developing. I try to let the shapes take me with them as they reform into something new. There is a fine line taken between robotic machine and organic lifeform, and here I hopefully have kept both interpretations intact. I was thinking about the Borg from Star Trek, the way that the computer network attaches to the victim , forming a new symbiotic relationship where the host and invasive hardware become fused into  a new organism. Well, I didnt get too far along those lines, but there are still distant vacuum based elements visible within this mutated creature, and signs of sentient life within perhaps.