Jennifer Ramsay: Vestige, 2014
This work represents an in-depth exploration of ideas questioning our place in the world and our complex relationship with nature.
Starting with an idea, form, bone, shard, or inner organ of a body, be it animal, human, fish, plant, fungi, rock… I research and sketch/draw, immersing myself into the subject until it eventually takes on an identity of its own. So rather than a literal representation, it is more an attempt or aim to trigger remnants of fundamental instincts.
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Vestige
The sculpture ‘Vestige’ started with extensive complex drawings of a water rat skull which then took off and developed during the making into a piece of work that evokes and draws from the animal, human, plant, and geological world.
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Viscera
This sculpture was based on a study on meditation and imagining the placement and feel of the internal organs during the process.
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Laminaria
Laminaria was inspired by finding long seaweed stretched out on the beach; I wanted to explore the correlation between the Laminaria body and the human spine.