30cm x 14cm

I’ve always been a keen observer – of the natural world, of the people around me, of any environment I pass through, of my own thoughts…. 

This habit is key to me as an artist. 

It provides the source of my art. 

Kafka’s work inspired me to look at objects in a different light. Instead of being tools or things that have concrete meaning; objects can be fluid. Ultimately an object’s value or use depends on the person that is perceiving it. 

My interpretation of Odradek, therefore, revolves around the idea that objects that are deemed no longer useful are usually discarded. I felt that in Kafka’s work, he played with the idea that they could actually be given new life and significance by the individual that interprets them. 

I collected various objects and bits that are on their own no longer useful; bits of string, dead batteries, wire from an old sketchbook spine, broken jewelry, etc and I decided to give them new life. But what could make these objects important again?

Are they once again useful if they represent a tool? A hammer, perhaps?
Are they significant if they are anthropomorphised? A pareidolia?

Or could I embrace the nonsensical nature of the objects together, creating something entirely new?