Created: 20210601
Source: Italia⋅UK
Collected: 2001-2021
This collection was mainly asmassed in the early part of the 2000s, when I was collecting a vast array of objects, and anything translucent in plastic. Although I have had them for 20 years now I only just recently worked out what I wanted to do with them, and it had to involve back lighting them to show the true beauty to which I was originally attracted.
Having recently begun experimenting in resin, I was really satisfied by using it to bond the lighters onto a sheet of frosted perspex, to create a subtle diffused atmosphere, and again reminded of the joy in gathering similar objects together, comparing the subtle shifts in colour through contact with the landscape over
More recently, as I began an artist's residency at the museum in Frome, I readdressed the unique qualities of these objects through drawing, and unleashed deeper interest through observed drawing and colour matching.
