A suite of ten small sculptures Blood on Silk: Try to hide/try to stand out, No’s 1 to 10, 2020, variable size each approximately 12 x 10 x 10(h)cm, Balsa wood, paint, found objects.
This work started as a speculation about the implications of possibly farming humans for blood plasma, whole blood and body parts. In those situations the individual producer is one of many. They are anonymous.
A documentary on how close the existing ‘donation” model of blood plasma acquisition in the USA gets to what could be called farming can be seen on https://vimeo.com/217497031 Blood Business. It is possible that large populations with limited mobility such as prison populations could be monetised in the same way.
Try to stand out/try to hide No 8 Being moved to disposal, 2019-2020, found objects, balsa, paint approx 140 x 50 x 100mm
Try to stand out/ try to hide, No 8
Try to stand out/ try to hide No. 3 Being ready to be milked, 2019-2020, found objects, balsa, paint approx 140 x 50 x 100mm
Try to stand out/ try to hide No. 5 Being without any defence, 2019-2020, found objects, balsa, paint,approx 140 x 50 x 100mm
Try to stand out/ try to hide No. 2 Being held in aluminium straightjackets, 2019-2020, found objects, balsa, paint approx 140 x 50 x 100mm
Try to stand out/ try to hide No. 3 Being ready to be milked II, 2019-2020, found objects, balsa, paint approx 140 x 50 x 100mm
Try to stand out/ try to hide No. 1 Being photographed in the dress uniform of the overseers, 2019-2020, found objects, balsa, paint approx 140 x 50 x 100mm
Try to stand out/ try to hide No. 10 Being with the dead, 2019-2020, found objects, balsa, paint approx 140 x 50 x 100mm
Try to stand out/ try to hide No. 6 Being the deluded supervisor, 2019-2020, found objects, balsa, paint approx 140 x 50 x 100mm
The other artists in the Plas Bodfa objects project were Jane Ross, Nisa Lynn Ojalvo, David Garner, Rachel Rosen, Annie Horsley, Wanda Garner, Peg McNulty and Jan Hale, Nicola Carter, Gill Collier, Sian Hughes, Shedart Studios, Gwen Williams, Michelle Heidi Sutton, Phillip J. Cassidy, Julie Jones, Anne ‘Wondercabinet’ Weshinskey, Lindsay Colbourne and Lisa Hudson, Jane Ross, Amy Sterly, Bill Chambers, Judith Samuel, Chapparral Andrew Hodges, Phillipa Brown, Rosie Green, Sezgi Abali, Cyrus Kellick, Sarah Jane Richards, Hopewell Ink, Ruth Cousins, Huw Gareth Jones, Michelle Prince, Julie Upmeyer, Nicki Cotton, Ceyda Oskay, Adele Kettlewell, Susan Cantrill-Williams, Remy Dean. Maud Haya-Baviera and Simon le Ruez, Tom Witherick, Elly Strigner, Jo Alexander and Lillemor Latham. https://www.plasbodfa.com/objects