monument

This large-scale model of an imaginary monument was exhibited as part of the Workington Winter Lights Festival where it was displayed in the window of a children's cloths shop. It was made as a satirical response to consumer culture and a playful parody commenting on Public Art. The model using items from a throwaway society and children's toys is built around a tree. By continuing to occasionally add small discarded items that I find interesting the work has become a kind of personal record of my own encounter with contemporary life. It has been exhibited frequently where the combination of everyday found objects existing in their own miniature world is particularly popular with children. One observer commented when looking at the spiral of assembled objects that represent the outside world how the sculpture prompted him to think about the future and how trees may one day become fragile objects venerated like museum exhibits, to be peered at through a glass case.