Here are some pieces that I've been working on this semester. Since my last update on my work my ideas have changed quite a bit. I suppose at that time I was still experimenting and playing around with ideas and through that it lead me to become more interested in hand building, quite the contrast. In my work from first semester there was a sense of collapse to the forms, from fallen thrown pieces to crumpled slip pieces and from that I began to look at society and the fall in that area, the fall of the "Boom" and the collapse of our economy which has had it's own effects on everyone. I've been looking into this whole concept of the recession which has lead to a lot of unemployment,emigration, depression and even suicide. I've researched an interesting French philosopher/ social psychologist Emile Durkheim who's theory from years of research
was that "suicide is not an individual act, as was previously thought by leading scientists of his time. Accordingly, his theory was that suicide was a social fact that was tied to social structures. He defined suicide as a social fact because it was something that happened driven by social causes, however hidden they were".
I found this quite interesting and decided to built pieces based around that idea.I also am making a collage highlighting some of the realities in Ireland today taken from newspaper clippings, prints etc.
*Better images to follow!!!
