Simon Hitchens
Bankend Noontide, 2023
Cast iron
16.5 x 7.5 x 31 cm
Custom base: 109 x 50 x 72 cm
Custom base: 109 x 50 x 72 cm
Edition 1 of 9 + 2AP
Copyright The Artist
Excluding base: £4000.00 + VAT. Including custom base: £5200 + VAT
The sculptures are casts of the midday shadows, directly indexed to each drawing and quite literally making the fourth dimension, three-dimensional. Made from cast iron, they give form to the...
The sculptures are casts of the midday shadows, directly indexed to each drawing and quite literally making the fourth dimension, three-dimensional. Made from cast iron, they give form to the negative, liminal space of shadows. They accurately record the haptic qualities of the Earth’s geology at a specific time and location, linking us to the past through the present and connecting us to something larger than ourselves.