Pliers Piece I
Pliers, plaster, acrylic paint. 12x1815cm. 2020
A sculpture composed of a pair of splayed handyman’s pliers and a painted plastercast of the inside of a coffee filter cone.
Pliers and other handyman’s tools such as hammers and spanners are recurrent features in some of my constructions.
The work is probably influenced by the Arte Povera movement, and the plastercast of the inside of the coffee filter may owe something to artists such as Rachel Whiteread (although I don’t think that she’s known for adding colour to her casts).