'The Destruction of the Lover' was my piece for our end of year exhibition. It consisted of 6mm steel members welded together to form a gralloch table. A gralloch table is usually a stainless steel table for holding the deer while preparing it for the larder. On it were some bones from the ribcage of a roe deer.
Originally I was looking at a bread response to the gralloch table and worked on this for about 3 weeks. No matter what I tried, it didn't look right but I did do some interesting experimentation with dough, leaving it for a day or two, stretching it and opening it up. Below are some of the structures I found:
In the end my tutor said "ditch the dough' and that led the way for me to find another solution for the piece. I like the contrast between the two materials. Metal - black, hard, cold, rigid, man-made. Bones - white, fragile, raw, natural. One of my peers said she thought it was a very masculine piece of work which was interesting. The title is a play on Louise Bourgeois's piece 'The Destruction of the Father'.
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