Obsolete Duplication
Etching and Tetra Pac print
Edition 1 of 10
62 cm x 82 cm
Artist’s Statement
Home is full. Collections span within and throughout home. These collections are so vast and important to their collectors that they have become one with the furniture of my household. The specific collection of focus in Obsolete Duplication is that of pieces of raw wood. Wood’s materiality demands a certain reaction towards it due to its visual weight, which I find intensely overwhelming when in large quantities. These collections are excessive in every aspect. Various types of wood clash, and there are duplicates of certain objects. Two pianos, two lounge suites, countless chairs and coffee tables which are left mostly unused as a result. It is frustrating to have space be taken up by obsolete objects that have become visually unappealing due to their excessive duplication.
Wood in my home is a valued material, especially when it is unique in its finishing or natural shape. In being overcome by the sheer amount of furniture due to its inherent materiality, I tend to take a hyper-rational approach and become obsessed with trying to solve the space, which is where the diagrammatic elements and the obsessive marks they hold stem from. Yet, due to these objects being valued as a collection, there can be no editing of the space and therefore, my perception of home. The Tetra Pac prints’ raw nature shows my shifted perception towards home, one in which I search for my contributions towards it to feel a sense of permanence and a sense of being valued in this space.