Sue Pam-Grant- About the work

 

In this new body of work, I am continuing to explore the transformation of the theatrical into the sculptural, using mixed media and the found object. I am working with the 'Box', and exploring how it transforms from 'Platform' to 'Stage', to 'Room', archiving fragments of interior landscapes inside the form of the 'Specimen Box'. 

 

Here, the 'specimen', the ephemeral memory, charged object or enlivened moment is encased and brought up close for scrutiny and visceral examination. I used clalico cloth parchments, sewing pattern tissue, wallpaper, and stencilled text to create backdrops and stage sets for our dialogues and conversations to play out their parts. In the process of 'covering' and 'uncovering', contours of our domestic maps have become scar tissue, cycloramas inside our personal proscenium arch - memorials that pay homage to the minutiae.