Tory Fair

From farm to studio. For the past few growing seasons, I’ve been harvesting flowers and plants and casting them in an aggregate of rubber and dirt. Using industrial silicone to represent a natural form poses a contradiction: the flowers are in protest with their own material make up and take on an aggressive presence when transformed into rubber.

These sunflowers were cast at the end of the 2019 growing season when their heads were heavy and their seeds ripe.  Although they are towards the end of their life cycle, they possess an incredible amount of perseverance and resilience.  Capturing this with the industrial ruggedness of rubber and dirt helps to amplify the endurance of the sunflower.  It's the same endurance we all have had to find in ourselves in the past few years of the pandemic.