My practice acts as a response to the cyclical process of the perpetual reconstruction/regeneration of the urban landscape. A landscape in constant motion: from construction to demolition, new builds to obsolescence. Reconstructions razed to the ground, disintegrating to rubble as the ground is levelled once again. A cyclical process, removing history from what once stood proud. Structures and identities lost and forgotten; neglected and left to decay, bulldozed to make way for the new. An Inevitable process which can highlight the temporary state of the landscape and how nothing really lasts forever.
With a current site focus on Glasgow, I question the temporary state of the urban through constant manipulation and reconstruction of sculptural object. With reference to site, structural forms and industrial materials, these interchangeable works position themselves as always in progress; subject to change and simply unresolvable.
Through ontology and material importance, my work mimics constructional planning: fragmented forms, architectural drawing, building plans, aerial mapping, instructional drawing and the use of cheap industrial materials. The objects I construct go under a continuous process of making and unmaking, doing and undoing, working and reworking. A process which questions the objects existence in terms of compositions and formations. Components, openings and absences also communicate with one another, piecing together visual narratives which flow through cuts, edges and physical depths exposing surface histories and substructures of the object. A constant demand of adjustments and amendments influence the temporary state of the work which mirrors the temporality of the urban landscape.
There may be no permanent composition and everything present could shift, reform or completely disappear. The past has been obscured to bring forth the present, which reminds us, time and time again, the state of the provisional city.
kyle.s.mcghee@hotmail.co.uk