Fetish Object 

            

The last element of the project is to think about  is deliberate acts of remembrance, which could have been left by ancestral communities.

The obvious question of why objects and traces of human existence are found in the ground?

The bottom of my garden is full of pieces of porcelain and glass bottles and this practice was typical of pre tip times. The old railway track replaced by farmland shows periodic surfacing of belongings, pushed up by earth worms or crops.

The occupation by Mesolithic people however, living in concentrated areas across the Stonehenge landscape, reveal discoveries of early design and functionality. For instance fire burnt flint, aurochs, wild boars, red deer and the associations and evidence of hunting, butchery and cooking.

Lastly, just as the objects at the gallery are signifiers of language and time and place now. What if the faunal remains, sealed with water clay deposit were deliberate acts of remembrance?

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I started working with cow dung and objects, sealed together by the watery consistency of the remains. I would like to explore this aspect of work further and consider the relationship to a given object: (identity, authenticity,validation,projection,protection,transference,ID and ego).These sculptures have a fetish like quality.

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