Scale Figures
DESCRIPTION:
Mixed media collage of scale figures posed on photographs of domestic and architectural spaces from current design magazines.
MATERIALS:analog 3D scale figures imposed on magazine images.
PROCESS:This series grew out of the common practice in architectural exploration to add ‘scale figures’ to a drawing or model as one works. Equipped with a pack of white, 3-dimensional scale figures, I started flipping through design magazines I had on hand and placed them into the spaces displayed on the pages. The inhabitation of these immaculately controlled spaces by scale figures that conformed–incidentally–to the gender binary and notions of Whiteness added a new dimension. While these images celebrated luxury, privilege and beauty there was a palpable sadness and isolation in their materialism further amplified by the presence of ‘people’.