Gnomes
2016
Object (Completed)
Available for purchase
Photography by Mari Kon
In this series, we take the garden gnome and squint, turning its kitsch figuration into abstract planes that blur the line between decoration, sculpture, and furniture.
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The garden gnome is a funny kind of object: a free-standing outdoor ornament, light-heartedly playful, unoriginally figural, unapologetically kitsch. Alongside other garden furniture and decoration, it illustrates the lawn’s status as a flattened version of nature, a hybrid of domestic myth and the wild outdoors.
For this series we look at the gnome and squint. What is left is a series of abstract compositions—some figural, others loose aggregations of shapes. New combinations of materials define these forms: articulating their geometries and rethinking the pallet of a lawn, a patio, or an urban balcony. By treating each piece as a combination of interlocking planes, we bring the gnome to the domestic interior as a flattened volume. Lighter and cheaper, these figures occupy the line between useless and functional, decorative and sculptural.
2016
Object (Completed)
Available for purchase
Photography by Mari Kon
In this series, we take the garden gnome and squint, turning its kitsch figuration into abstract planes that blur the line between decoration, sculpture, and furniture.
The garden gnome is a funny kind of object: a free-standing outdoor ornament, light-heartedly playful, unoriginally figural, unapologetically kitsch. Alongside other garden furniture and decoration, it illustrates the lawn’s status as a flattened version of nature, a hybrid of domestic myth and the wild outdoors.
For this series we look at the gnome and squint. What is left is a series of abstract compositions—some figural, others loose aggregations of shapes. New combinations of materials define these forms: articulating their geometries and rethinking the pallet of a lawn, a patio, or an urban balcony. By treating each piece as a combination of interlocking planes, we bring the gnome to the domestic interior as a flattened volume. Lighter and cheaper, these figures occupy the line between useless and functional, decorative and sculptural.