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Portfolio: Bowls
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840.2.99 40x41x34 cm cowhide |
859.2.00 39x48x38 cm cowhide |
887.2.02 33x29.5x10 cm cowhide |
892.2.02 34x28 cm cowhide |
900.2.02 44x16 cm cowhide |
903.2.03 32x15 cm cowhide |
905.2.03 36x14 cm cowhide |
906.2.03 56x36x23 cm cowhide |
924.2.05 49x23 cm cowhide |
933.2. 07 44x14 cm cowhide |
942.2.08 31x11.5 cm cowhide |
949.2.09 34x15.5 cm Cowhide |
953.2.09 68.5x47x23 cm cowhide |
954.2.09 37.5x16.5 cm cowhide |
955.2.09 35x40x14 cm cowhide |
958.2.09 39x15 cm cowhide |
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The cuir bouilli bowls are essays on the effects of 'boiling' leather and the means of controlling it. They were the first successful objects I made using the cuir bouilli process and remain a favoured means of both exploring the process and developing new ways of controlling it. They allow me to pose questions about the aesthetic possibilities of virtuoso handling of materials, as well as questions about how our experience of and our consequent expectations of a material effect our perception of it and of the objects we make from it. With the bowls these expectations tend to render the leather unrecognizable. Seeing hardened forms of this kind in leather is simply beyond the experience of most people. The irony of this is of course that the work is intimately connected to the particular character and abilities of the material. The confusion that can result from such apparently minor gaps in knowledge or lapses in our attention to detail have larger implications for our abilities to know and understand what we see. |
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