The DNA of ART. CDs on MDF. Work in Progress, Feb 2011.



By making the iconic Double Spiral of DNA from CDs, I'm alluding to the fact that all ART has its ancestors. Our work is born of the work that has been. We can no more escape the ART that has gone before than we can discard our own genes.  By using CDs which are simply lying around my desk or the office here at 702, I'm emphasising the dichotomy between the ARTIST'S desire for eternity and the ineluctable empheralness of the work itself. There is also a subtext of the dialogue between commerce and ART; between packaging and emotion. 
The DNA Spiral also suggest that there is only ART of the past and the ART that is to come.
Structurally I'm engaged in constructing two interlocking spirals that will support themselves. The challenge is to place the CDs to make the spiral and to bring the weight of the tower back in on itself. No adhesive is being used. ART made of ART. ART that needs only ART to survive.