Duvet

‘Duvet’, is an eerie form situated within the centre of the room raised above the floor. The off-white structure is seated on stained wooden floorboards, capturing the solemnity of the sculpture through its undulating form which is created using traditional building materials of cob and lime. It provokes an illusionistic representation of a quilted duvet, appearing soft and unfixed despite being hard and immobile, actualizing a shadowed space within that brings into existence an absent figurative element. The sculpture, although imitating the characteristics of a duvet does the complete opposite and instead is a ghostly, uninviting hollow structure. This evokes an uncanny feeling between the imagery and the material structure itself. There is a human shaped space in the centre of the sculpture that completely engulfs the invisible figure, suggesting an area where a figure may have or could have sat.