Transmutation, 2014-18

A-blok (lightweight concrete), plaster. Dimensions variable.

The flesh, what Western civilization repressed best. Nature, the ‘Other of the urban environment’. - An imaginary mutation of the manmade environment into flesh. The body carves into the material, creating an image of itself and of its actions, in what is an act of corrosion from within. Man’s fleshy substance, seen as part of a world that he can not control, scares him. Nature is concealed, hidden away in a vain attempt to be kept outside when in reality it is what is already inside. It swells and overflows, devouring structures and borders; it fights back, it constantly changes as it goes through life.