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The Sticky Saurus
The DinoMite Days Dinosaurs
are not rare objects in a special environment, they are public
sculptures in an industrial city, and they should reflect the environment
in which they are situated. The StickySaurus collects and reflects
the environment and the life that happens around it by covering
its body with physical traces of that place and activity.
The dinosaur is painted
with a liquid sugar
solution, making it sticky, like a large piece of candy.
These adhesive surfaces results in physical traces of
the environment sticking
to the dinosaur, over time grafting a skin, and reflecting
the pattern of activity around it.
Every place in the
city has distinct
activities, and these activities leave physical traces,
evidence of life
lived. These physical traces are often small, even ephemeral,
like dust
(exhaust from cars,
crumbs from lunches, ashes from cigarettes,
particles from the
steel mills). Usually we don't notice these particles; it
collects on our shoes, or in
our clothes, all
without our attention.
StickySaurus transforms
the dinosaur,
the archetypal image
for history, into
a collection of the present,
creating our history.
StickySaurus becomes more than the individual
expression of
the artist, it is a
participative work,
generated by everyday urban life. |
