The work consists of 2 wooden sculptures, 1 projection, 9 wax horses, 1 aluminium horse and 1 large image.
This metal horse is probably my personal favourite considering how much time and effort went into the whole process.
These part skyscraper/part server objects are a metre tall and 30cm x 30cm each.
At the core of my work lies this paradox of wanting to use digital techniques while still feeling compelled to create work in a more traditional manner. This is an image of the character my work is based around. He's an office worker who's trapped in his daily routine, dreaming or having the ambition of returning to a more natural existence, symbolized by the white horse in my animation (a few posts down from this one). The animation is in a constant loop in the final display, and the horse is never caught. The metal horse is supposed to be an ornament that's in this characters office. The wooden sculptures above are almost a variation on the same theme of escape/ambition, only the horses in this case are escaping to an island from the skyscraper-like structures. They also have a resemblance to large computer servers. They're the same colours as the ground, windows and sunset from my animation, and made to look as if they are downloading/uploading. Perhaps they are generating the island structure. Likewise, the horses are the same colour as the core of each tower, with one tower's core having almost emptied... So in this case the work is about perceived escape, or literally a virtual escape.
An idea that I could only test due to time and projector constraints. I plan on making a piece that fully intergrates a sculpture with a video projection at a later date.
These pictures really don't do the installation justice, nor does not seeing the space with the animation running at the same time, but I hope they give the gist of it for the time being.
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