Lucy Hodgson

(American)
My work is an anti-technology statement  in the service of environmentalism.It is made primarily of organic materials and bits of architectural elements  salvaged  from demolition sites.  Since these  materials are inexpensive or free, and are generally biodegradable, my work is intentionally impermanent and the value lies only in its aesthetic merit and the concept that it conveys.  We can sometimes say  more with the things we throw away, than we necessarily can say with trendy new processes; the form, not the monetary worth or the sculpture’s permanence, is what must speak to the viewer.  

A sculpture must address some issue of human experience and place.  I have done a series of wave like pieces made of discarded wooden shingles to exhibit on a World Heritage site that had been battling the encroaching seas in the Netherlands for centuries.  Other pieces are representative of weather or water.  Still others define objects of significance in  ornate wooden, painted frames as a comment on values that should either be preserved or abandoned.  I enjoy making objects that imply functionality, but don’t really do anything .

--Lucy Hodgson

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