Michael Shaw
Sculptor
All the inflatable sculptures I create are abstract in conception, but because they often move sinuously around architectural features, they seem to adopt animal characteristics. A hint of the snake or worm, something parasitic; or more corporeal inferences, such as the intestines or genitals. Animation is heightened by the sculptures’ cyclical breathing as they inflate and deflate with the fan’s timer, and by the variegated stripes of recent pieces, which allude to the bold colouration used by animals to warn off predators. The illusion that sculpture might be alive has been desired by many sculptors through millennia of making. It is an ambition I share.
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