Matt Smart
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Brick molds and casts in pigmented, layered Jesmonite.
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 Building upon previous works, in conjunction with developments in street art, a body of work is underway based upon individual identities and collectives in relation to interactions between the concerns of environmental and earth art, street art, and prehistoric art. ​ The work comprises developing inter-related pieces based on considerations of:
  • connectivity and communication through earthly materials and the use of physical resources
  • silicon, rock and clay's continuing roles and symbolism in industrialisation and artistic forms 
  • human origins and our natural and constructed environments
  • the origins of language from prehistoric cave art on walls, through heiroglyphs, into coded writing, and now back into international visual communication forms such and emojis and memes, enabling new tribal diasporas and collectives
  • street art and how we message through the physical matter of our surroundings
  • expressing and sharing experiences and beliefs as a collective act
  • sculptural impressions' representation of the emotional impressions which are made and felt through learnt behaviours, emulating others, and living memories of others
  • how self expression and freedom forcefully manifest as essential characteristics for social cohesion
  • physical laws and theories of motion, gravitation, inertia, thermodynamics, spacial expansion and entropy, and how they can apply to societal changes, and individual and collective consciousness
  • tribal histories, modern collective tribalism, and individual identity 
​We come from earth.  Our houses are still made of clay and our computers of silicon.  Stone is hot and flowing if you delve beyond the hard surface.  Individuality informs cohesive strength.  Influential impressions occur through memories, clay, and art.  50,000 years ago people began painting on walls.  Those wall-sprayed hands still touch us when we touch earth, clay, and stone to express ourselves as individuals in collectives..  
These connect and shape us..  The new works are about this. 
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