{"id":6457,"date":"2023-12-05T12:07:04","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T12:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/?p=6457"},"modified":"2024-03-13T08:34:01","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T08:34:01","slug":"flight-mobile-sculpture-hands-as-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/flight-mobile-sculpture-hands-as-wings\/","title":{"rendered":"Flight mobile sculpture \u2013 hands as wings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/contemporary-art-images\/contemporary-art-flight-mobile-wings-hands.jpg\" alt=\"contemporary art fight mobile\" title=\"contemporary art fight mobile\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Flight.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Wood, plastic.    June 2022.    Solo exhibition, Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens, Cornwall.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A mobile sculpture consisting of wooden spheres with plastic hands that form wings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hands are a recurrent theme in my work, as is flight. I&#8217;ve created several works that feature hands as wings, usually in the form of sketches and other drawings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Using hands as wings is actually far from being far-fetched. The wings of birds and bats both evolved from hands (which is why birds and bats don&#8217;t have hands \u2013 it&#8217;s a choice of one or the other. Angels and fairies have both, but they are made up and are anatomically incorrect). Insect wings evolved along a different route, possibly from heat-gathering flaps or panels (insects being very dependant on the heat of the sun).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The symbolism of flight is linked closely with the concept of freedom. This link can be overstated, I think, especially when we project it onto the natural world. We envy the flight of birds, but birds don&#8217;t fly because they are free. Small birds that in theory can fly wherever they please often tend to spend their whole lives in a single place such as an individual tree. Some of them may migrate thousands of miles to reach their chosen tree, but they&#8217;ve possibly travelled there from another individual tree in a different part of the world. On top of this, on isolated islands that have no predators birds frequently lose the power of flight, so flying obviously isn&#8217;t one of their primary concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flight. Wood, plastic. June 2022. Solo exhibition, Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens, Cornwall. A mobile sculpture consisting of wooden spheres with plastic hands that form wings. Hands are a recurrent theme in my work, as is flight. I&#8217;ve created several works that feature hands as wings, usually in the form of sketches and other drawings. Using hands [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16],"tags":[68],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6457"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6457"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8130,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6457\/revisions\/8130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}