Nude Family on Public Beach sculpture, Beach Accident sulpture by the Dramatic Sculptress by Teresa Wells, who writes….
“I like to play with both the real and the imagined, it creates enquiry and engagement. If the work seems to operate in some kind of absurd surreality, that is a good thing for me. The Communication Series draws inspiration from polarities in communication ability, (mainly that between a neuro typical individual, and someone on the autistic spectrum). I want to illustrate that with the increasing use of mobile technology, a neuro typical individual abuses their innate ability to empathise. Therefore I employ pathos and irony in the narratives, they reflect what I see, that is a lack of display in the appropriate emotional response and compassion. It is how I interpret current behavioural patterns with communication and interaction. To me this behaviour creates tenuous relationship, with our ability to survive it, becoming increasingly fragile. I would like it be aspect of an imagined world.
As I observe, document and comment on the absurdity of our ability to show empathy with humanity, the relationship between representation and abstraction begins. ’Hashtag Tragedy’ 2016, for instance began with representing a real life event, using the image of the Syrian boy found dead on the beach in Turkey. I move into abstraction as I begin to analyse the unseen circumstances of the image’s construction. This would link in to the question that inspires me most ‘ How do Humans Behave’, and in particular my current interest with interaction and communication. Inquiry begins with queries about who took the photograph? What was their motive? How did the image end up with so much media attention? How long did it take to transmit this globally? Was the audience detached from an innate emotional response? Was the photographer empathically detached when he took the photograph? Did anyone try and resuscitate the boy first or was that a secondary response to that of securing the image?
The surreality of the situation is played out within the viewer’s moral code, the work asks us to reflect on what would be the right thing to do. Would we respond differently in that situation, if we did not have at our disposal, the technological capability to capture images instantaneously and upload them to a global audience?
Artist's Comment
Hashtag Tragedy (Beached Family Sea Accident statues)
by Teresa Wells
Edition: 1
£1,834
Biography I obtained a first class honors degree in Fine Art from Nottingham Trent University, 1996, and undertook postgraduate studies…
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