Musings

'Gina's Foot' concrete, hebel, rubbish 50x50x25cm Ben Laycock 2016 The year is 2221. The world is run by The Sisterhood of Anarchist Collectives, mentored by a steering committee of wise elders. Peace, harmony and joy have reigned over the land since time immemorial. Whilst working in the ochre pits, a group of young diggers unearths a giant foot, surrounded by all manner of strange objects made of unknown materials and having no conceivable use. The wise elders are summoned to decipher the mystery, but they are none-the-wiser. Just one wrinkled old lady has retained the faculties needed...


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Big Black Foot carbon (cardboard & coal) 2mx1mx70cm Ben Laycock & Rilka Laycock-Walsh 2020 The Cult of  Things The year is 2221. The world is run by The Sisterhood of Anarchist Collectives, mentored by a steering committee of wise elders. Peace, harmony and joy have reigned over the land since time immemorial. Whilst working in the ochre pits, a group of young diggers unearths a giant foot, surrounded by all manner of strange objects made of unknown materials and having no conceivable use. The wise elders are summoned to decipher the mystery, but they are none-the-wiser....


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Until now artists have only interpreted the world, the point however, is to change it. -        apologies to Karl Marx So, what do we have to change, why do we have to change it, and how do we change it? The problem of course is materialism- the pursuit of happiness through the accumulation and ostentatious display of wealth and the consumption of a mind-boggling array of luxury products. We have to change because it is obviously unsustainable. A philosophy based on meeting the ever increasing desires of an ever growing population via the extraction of more and more resources...


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