TSUKOMOGAMI SHEEP, bench sculpture, without bronze horns

Tsukumogami (“artefact spirit”) are a type of Japanese spirit. Living inanimate objects. A series of experimental studies using Concrete Canvas. As concrete, the material possesses an inherent strength, and as a fabric – albeit quite a heavy fabric – it has an innate organic quality and movement. In its raw state, it can be seen as a finished product, not requiring polishing, sanding, or painting, which is required of any other material or process. The intrinsic life of the material stimulates a conscious awareness of the senses for an immediate response - modelling and moulding the raw flesh-ness of the material from an idea, a thought or feeling, rather than developing the works through sketch phases, analysis and then development stages.

Tsukumogami Sheep:

There is an intrinsic life within the material that stimulates immediate response - modelling and moulding the raw flesh-ness of the material from an idea, a thought or feeling, rather than developing the works through sketch phases, analysis and then development stages.
The domestic detritus, remnants of building materials and found objects used to create and give form to the Tsuku’s – collected along an urban journey - are directly linked to the areas where each series is created.
It is the memory of these remnants that allows for their development of logic, hypotheses and the accumulation of knowledge, churning in a primordial ether of emotions and growth, manifested in the physical forms that each Tsuku takes on, as well as the emotions it emits.

An ode to Lalanne's sheep sculpture.

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