Mia Gwenllian


















‘Orifice’

October 2023

Found objects, unintelligible text, drawings, and photography


The Baptismal font in this sculpture is allegorically represented by an old chair foot. The profile of its apex sits a handwritten poem, repeatedly rubbed out and written again, scratched into with the dry leftover ink of a paintbrush. The text, and the sculpture as a whole, cultivates the historical act of palimpsest: the suggestion of an object made or worked upon for one purpose and later reused for another.






























































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