MATCH Series - Third Time Lucky
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The first of a series of Matchstick sculptures exploring the interconnected notions of love, violence, war, peace, creation, enlightenment. The humble matchstick as an object itself is to me something simple in form yet with the ability to not only serve a function in being a source of fire, but also manage to be personified in their narrow form with rounded top.
Beginning with the matchstick’s role as an invention of harnessing the power to create fire. Darwin regarded fire as the greatest discovery of mankind, second only to language. Fire has become a symbol of both positive and negative connotation; a giver of light, warmth and energy and an ultimate force of destruction and pain. What interests me is the way we as both a humanity but perhaps more interestingly as individuals interpret these connotations across various aspects of life.
Through an ongoing series of works that I will look to release, sell and contextualise, I will look to explore the notions of the matchstick and fire and explore it’s personification as an object, both on a personal and wider level.
The first of this series: Third Time Lucky
A few years ago during a trip to New York, a friend and I decided to visit a Tarot Card reader across the street from the bar we were in. Whilst dubious and not necessarily a believer in such things, I enjoy to engage such elements from time to time. I always thought of it as adding spice to the cooking pot that is my mind. The only thing I really took from it was one thing the reader told me: “you will love three times and the third will be for life”. My response was “third time lucky”.
The topic of love; past, present and future is one I always used to explore naively. Love is something we do not really learn about at school at a pragmatic level. It evades fact and predictability. The concept of romantic love is something we only really discover through our own exposure to fine art, film, poetry etc. It is something that we as a humanity often place significance and importance on when looking at the course of our lives. Some consider love an essential part to our continuation with the traditional ideal of “finding your other half” and for many others it is multiple connections to be felt freely without constraint.
I am still learning my own outlook on love between individuals but what I know is that there is not “failed” love. There IS love past present and future. Love that runs its course. Love that is lost. Love that can be felt but is felt but not discovered. And love that is felt, that burns, that is enjoyed, that might suffer however, it is love that lives and carries you forward.
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Edition of 5 + 1 AP
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The first of a series of Matchstick sculptures exploring the interconnected notions of love, violence, war, peace, creation, enlightenment. The humble matchstick as an object itself is to me something simple in form yet with the ability to not only serve a function in being a source of fire, but also manage to be personified in their narrow form with rounded top.
Beginning with the matchstick’s role as an invention of harnessing the power to create fire. Darwin regarded fire as the greatest discovery of mankind, second only to language. Fire has become a symbol of both positive and negative connotation; a giver of light, warmth and energy and an ultimate force of destruction and pain. What interests me is the way we as both a humanity but perhaps more interestingly as individuals interpret these connotations across various aspects of life.
Through an ongoing series of works that I will look to release, sell and contextualise, I will look to explore the notions of the matchstick and fire and explore it’s personification as an object, both on a personal and wider level.
The first of this series: Third Time Lucky
A few years ago during a trip to New York, a friend and I decided to visit a Tarot Card reader across the street from the bar we were in. Whilst dubious and not necessarily a believer in such things, I enjoy to engage such elements from time to time. I always thought of it as adding spice to the cooking pot that is my mind. The only thing I really took from it was one thing the reader told me: “you will love three times and the third will be for life”. My response was “third time lucky”.
The topic of love; past, present and future is one I always used to explore naively. Love is something we do not really learn about at school at a pragmatic level. It evades fact and predictability. The concept of romantic love is something we only really discover through our own exposure to fine art, film, poetry etc. It is something that we as a humanity often place significance and importance on when looking at the course of our lives. Some consider love an essential part to our continuation with the traditional ideal of “finding your other half” and for many others it is multiple connections to be felt freely without constraint.
I am still learning my own outlook on love between individuals but what I know is that there is not “failed” love. There IS love past present and future. Love that runs its course. Love that is lost. Love that can be felt but is felt but not discovered. And love that is felt, that burns, that is enjoyed, that might suffer however, it is love that lives and carries you forward.
← GO BACK
Edition of 5 + 1 AP
contact us for availability
The first of a series of Matchstick sculptures exploring the interconnected notions of love, violence, war, peace, creation, enlightenment. The humble matchstick as an object itself is to me something simple in form yet with the ability to not only serve a function in being a source of fire, but also manage to be personified in their narrow form with rounded top.
Beginning with the matchstick’s role as an invention of harnessing the power to create fire. Darwin regarded fire as the greatest discovery of mankind, second only to language. Fire has become a symbol of both positive and negative connotation; a giver of light, warmth and energy and an ultimate force of destruction and pain. What interests me is the way we as both a humanity but perhaps more interestingly as individuals interpret these connotations across various aspects of life.
Through an ongoing series of works that I will look to release, sell and contextualise, I will look to explore the notions of the matchstick and fire and explore it’s personification as an object, both on a personal and wider level.
The first of this series: Third Time Lucky
A few years ago during a trip to New York, a friend and I decided to visit a Tarot Card reader across the street from the bar we were in. Whilst dubious and not necessarily a believer in such things, I enjoy to engage such elements from time to time. I always thought of it as adding spice to the cooking pot that is my mind. The only thing I really took from it was one thing the reader told me: “you will love three times and the third will be for life”. My response was “third time lucky”.
The topic of love; past, present and future is one I always used to explore naively. Love is something we do not really learn about at school at a pragmatic level. It evades fact and predictability. The concept of romantic love is something we only really discover through our own exposure to fine art, film, poetry etc. It is something that we as a humanity often place significance and importance on when looking at the course of our lives. Some consider love an essential part to our continuation with the traditional ideal of “finding your other half” and for many others it is multiple connections to be felt freely without constraint.
I am still learning my own outlook on love between individuals but what I know is that there is not “failed” love. There IS love past present and future. Love that runs its course. Love that is lost. Love that can be felt but is felt but not discovered. And love that is felt, that burns, that is enjoyed, that might suffer however, it is love that lives and carries you forward.