wanderers

(During the lockdown in the UK, a friend and I lived with another friend at her parents' house and we watched Grayson's Art Club on the TV during dinner sometimes. This was a quick response to one of the weeks' themes 'home'.)

"This sculpture is originally inspired by a scribble of my dad and me that I drew on the wall when I was around 3, but it was painted over after my mother and I left that house. It's one of the few things I remember about that house (maybe it's because I used to be so proud of it because I had accidentally given it perspective) so I wanted to recreate it, although they turned into a woman and a dog - who are homeless travellers, and while they search for a home they become their homes built on the remnants of their lost homes. They are incomplete structures; I used wires to make their bodies look like cages, which offer them protection, inclusion, and exclusion.
It also recreates the sketchiness and instability and allows them to change when viewed from different perspectives very similar to a home, representing the fragility of the abstract idea we hold of homes caused by our often overly emotional attachment to them.
They remind me of those travellers in children's novels that sleep on haystacks. This installation was also inspired by The Hollow Men by T.S. Elliott and another poem, written by someone with the same name as my father, (everyone looks up their parents' name on the internet right) about buskers and their dogs. I think the making of this piece is meditative, it gives me space and carries things forwards."