Cornelia Parker + Metal

I have heard about Cornelia Parker before but i didn't see her as an artist that linked to my work at the time, but now after a year i come back to her and see similarities that i have maybe ignored but they were there. 

Cornelia Parker is an installation/ sculpture artist and her work has been described as "linked to the fragility of human experience". There is a piece of work that really links to the piece i am considering making for the Metal show. It is called Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View (1991, London, Tate) This piece is a restored three-dimensional volume of a garden shed which has been exploded on purpose by the British army at the request of Cornelia Parker. What she did with the surviving fragments of the shed for me is quite genius. She suspended the fragments from the ceiling with a single bulb in the middle which cast shadows on the gallery walls giving a dramatic effect. Invading the gallery space with the shadows which gave a sense of magnitude of the bombing, which worked not only with the space but with the people entering it. Cornelia Parker worked not only with the altered scale and substance of things but also with the meaning conveyed by found objects.

Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View (1991, London, Tate) 

This piece in my opinion links in with the work i am considering doing for the Metal gallery. I am thinking of "giving life" to the marks and splashes found in the building by using their shape and changing it to create something else, like "rebirth of marks" in the building. Each mark has a history which we don't know, have their own maker which i find very interesting. I want to add importance to them because for me they look abandoned and ignored. When i look at the mark i cannot help but think about how it was made, what year, the marks are like a by product of other people experiences. For me to engage with them is like giving them another chance to live and being noticed. So i am thinking of tracing marks i find in the building and laser-cutting them onto plastic to then heat and change their flat shape into natural forms. Natural forms for me symbolize growth and life and the cycle of life, so by using the information given by marks/tracings i want to give life to them though giving them a natural shape and uniting them together to form one.

~Ev