Unwitting Collusion / 2010

2010 shifted this theme into a new medium, bronze casting. This series of works alluded to city-dweller ambivalence towards the plight of local birds, using the metaphor of keeping pet cats. Cats, despite being well-fed, will still savage accessible birds given half a chance.

The painted sections of the bases represent the synthetic, constructed, human environment, the ‘inside’, to nature’s ‘outside’. The bare steel sections allude to the changing, shifting world of ‘out there’, in which unknown cycles, interplays, and conversations are going on. The rectangular bases are a neutral combining of the two worlds, with reference to reality made through the planar, horizontal qualities. The framed environments allow for readings about the passing of time and specific actions.