Sad Clowns of the Anthropocene is a sculpture series that features anthropomorphic stratified “rock bodies”. Pointing to the rock record with its timeline extended far into the past, and to human-animal forms; the sculptures that make up this series appear as lone standing figures, totemic in their isolation. But unlike totems, they settle into standing postures that rest in their resignation. And just as the rock record provides visual clues to the distant geological past, what narratives might these human-animal rock forms suggest? As sad clown analogies – perhaps the folly of our Anthropocentric deceit; as rock bodies – a narrative record of our once diverse, human-animal past.

Great Horn, 15″ x 10″ x 6″, porcelain and stoneware, 2022 (private collection)

 

Sad Clowns of the Anthropocene (sculpture group), porcelain and stoneware, 2022

 

Infinity+folly – Trumpeter, 23″ x 9″ x 9″, porcelain and stoneware, 2023

 

Infinity+folly – Star’ling, 13.5″ x 9″ x 6″, porcelain and stoneware, 2022

infinity & folly: brothers

Infinity+folly – Brothers, 11″ x 7″ x 6″, porcelain and stoneware, 2021

Infinity+folly – Youth, 18″ x 7″ x 7″, coloured porcelain and stoneware, 2021