Marcus Quintal
Self preservation owes much to technology. We are consumed by it on a day to day basis. Despite its inevitable role in war and extermination, technology allows us higher quality and longer lives amongst many other useful platforms.
Man has the luxury to use today's technology in new and ever more challenging ways. Man's limitless search and scrutiny of his of his existence is a never ending story. The Large Hydron Collider in Geneva is the largest and most expensive scientific instrument made to date and collides particles together. Doing this is aimed at uncovering the key to our existence. It's like we are creating a new kind of Stone Age in which the ideal of technology is seen as favouring some instead of others.
Could these resources be better implemented or distributed towards the poorer and neediest. The use of ceramic based objects in my art acts as a metaphor in the issue of resources better spent on commodity or looking after the less well off.
Besides this ambiguity another main concern is the more sinister manifestations of technology. Ethical issues should remain rooted in uncovering the fallout of such technologies. For example: What is it doing? What is its intention? Whom does it benefit and even unseen harm it may cause. These are some of the issues I will explore as well as wider issues that exists. To do so I will construct sculptural objects that personifies a scientific role or process. The fusion of everyday domestic found objects is significant in how my art is made.
