Cynthia Myron

Richmond, Virginia

Tredge

cast pewter, 5 x 4 inches

Ordinary, mundane, and common spaces act as expressive vehicles for the human body and mind. Because of this, I create a dialogue between humans and their intimate architectural spaces, usually the home as it often times acts a symbol of safety and shelter.

This work with seemingly ordinary spatial elements such as wooden floors, moldings, cedar shakes or windows becomes materialistically empty yet narrative when view together as specimens. As homes and people grow and evolve, the idea of "home" easily becomes a part of everyday consumerism much like society's convenience or material compulsions. Homes are recycled and devoured as spaces for safety, comfort and even self worth. More specifically, this work which represents our living environment and a need for a rebirth of how we consume, speaks of an all too common obsession with status-seeking through consumer waste and a disposable identity created from base materialism. This results in a consumer society which ultimately values possessions through a wasteful use of energy and materials to gain self worth through materialism.

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