Eoin Breadon
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We often perceive a divide between scientific study and artistic
expression: logical v. emotional; analytical v. intuitive;
quantitative v. qualitative. Reconciliation of the idea and the
experience, where the context shifts from the expected to the abstract,
and our historically based predictions are altered by the forced
re-evaluation from changes in presentation. My current work lives
in this space between what is felt and what is defined. By using
and abstracting the human form, I am taking a recognizable and
understood object and redefining the interaction with the viewer.
It is the exploration of what creates our understanding of the physical
self, the tangible shell that represents our intellectual, spiritual,
and cultural development.
Manipulating glass in its molten state as the primary medium, I am able
to incorporate the more visceral aspects of experience as I form it by
hand. Combined with manufactured elements, I seek to reconcile
the less tangible aspects of experience with corporeal reality.
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Cú
Chulláin,
2007
Hot sculpted and blown glass,
23" x 24" 10"
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Reliquaries 9 / 11, 2007
Blown and hot sculpted glass |
Ascension, 2007
Hot sculpted and blown glass, steel base
77" x 12" x 18" |
Reliquaries 12 / 13, 2007
Blown and hot sculpted glass
38" x 6 / 32" x 5.5
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Reliquary 12 (detail)
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Reliquary 12 (detail)
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