4 x free standing sculptures 2 foot x 3 foot, mixed media
The miniatures are sculptures, replicas of buildings that once stood along the East Coast of England. As a result of coastal erosion the land beneath the buildings has been sucked away undermining their structure and leading to their demise.
Through recreating these forgotten places and bringing them together in a collective; that which is forgotten is brought into a new domain. The miniatures’ presence together in a new space creates a world in which they can exist, a parallel universe of that which has been lost. The miniatures rest in an uneasy place between a longing for what is lost and their awkward state within the present.
Walter Benjamin described how contradictory elements could come together revealing a dialectical image in their wake, the miniatures and the space surrounding them can be read dialectically, with the polarities of past and present, the homely and the uncanny, the fashionable and the unfashionable. These polarities play themselves out within the sculptures creating a bridge between the now and what has gone before, thus presenting an image of the past in its uneasy place within the present.