 |
| After the party Burst balloon on concrete slab 2003 |
This work is made from a burst balloon, a piece of rubbish that at one stage
symbolised a temporary period of extravagance and festivities. Now that
this is over (the party is over and the balloon has burst) I’m making
an attempt to justify the rubbish left by working over it obsessively,
cutting tiny intricate patterns into it with a pen knife, hoping to give
new meaning to the discarded balloon.
To
some people the work may seem quite pointless, it will always be a
burst balloon no matter what I do with it, the more I work on it (cut
into it) the further it moves away from the big round object filled with
air that was used to mark a celebration. But hopefully, if I keep
working on it, the result will be something that holds more than air.
