Elaine Bradford
In my recent sculptural work I explore connotations associated with the handmade. As such, I am currently working with handmade sweaters. The act of making sweaters brings to mind hours of labor, societal histories, and concepts of comfort and warmth. I am interested in the idea of a person spending countless hours to create something that may or may not be wanted or needed, but something that must be given. Utilizing familiar items and referencing the domestic, I introduce the viewer to an uncanny reality that is strange, yet plausible. This absurd domesticity resurrects these inanimate objects and brings them to a new life. These logs, deer heads and trees are no longer objects of only passing thought, but require deeper contemplation. My sculptures are both sad and amusing, straddling the line between reality and comfortable, warm nonsense.
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