Labyrinth

2005

MDF, plastic, pinkgrip, paperback books, paint.

height 92 cm

‘Labyrinth’ is made of various types of plastic containers, mostly for milk, melted and stuck together. It is both a heap of skulls and the cortex, has the appearance of the uncovered brain and makes reference to the complexity of thinking. The turbulent network of connections envelop an MDF shelving unit. Looking through the holes to the interior, the viewer glimpses the partly obscured covers of books: all the stuff lost to memory. Its complex appearance provokes the mind to repeatedly ‘read’ over the surfaces: the anxious roaming glance of constant enquiry. The object is made to be a fertile ground for many readings around it’s core proposition. What interests me is how we read into things, how our mind projects images into complex forms, and more generally: the mystery of how the material mush of brain becomes consciousness.