HIKE OF INDULGENCE

Hike of indulgences, 2008, clay and sweet and biscuit wrappers, 1600cm x 2800cm x 8cm (in variable dimensions)
In this litter of assemblages in variable dimensions, sweet wrappers are depressed into lumps of clay, in a way that allows part of their individual crumpled ends to stick out of them. Every lump has a unique type of pressure that has been exerted in its squeeze, as depicted in the different variations in the depth of the depressions of the fingerprints involved in each grip.
The sweet wrappers used in this work actually represent the fleeting pleasures of life and the clay grips on them demonstrate emphatically the varied degrees of importance every individual, irrespective of their race, colour, vocation, culture etc places on them. It is an accepted noteworthy observation that man’s wants are boundless but it is that endless pursuit of these indulgences that most times illustrate our basic definitions of living.