The Proper Slowness
Lamb bone, dried flower, sugar, aluminum sheet
Burning sugar, like amber, is cast into a small cube, embedded within it is a lamb bone and a dried flower.
Since 8000 BC, sugar has been discovered in New Guinea and spread worldwide. Despite its highly addictive nature, it always retains an irresistible desire in its rushing blood. For both human and non-human animals that seek for the living.
In this work, it appears to be a solidified and stable preservative, yet different states of syrup exhibit distinct melting -or “preservation” -speeds. Such “proper slowness” is like the memory that coats the life. For me, it speaks to the emotional endurance tested by chronic illness, and the playful flirting with material boundaries.
Between the body and thing, the dead and the living, the healthy and the ill, the protective and the seductive, joy and pain. A proper slowness.
Exhibition Views: SE London Micro Sculpture Fair, St Hames Hatcham, London, 2022