Listening in Flower Beds
Vincent Pocsik
2022
97 L x 42 W x 88 H IN
Carved Douglas Fur, Brass Hinges
From the exhibition： Cabinet is Me
“Cabinet is Me” is a search for the different meanings of being a body in a domestic space. The struggles, the happiness, the sexual explorations, and all the memories also lead a person to develop feelings towards the inanimate objects watching them. This leads to the question, what would it be like to be that object, that cabinet.
Figures grow into cabinets, tables, lamps, etc, and are shrouded with the floral patterning of domestic life in both a figurative and literal way. “Cabinet is Me” started from a meditation on what it would be like to be a person's domestic object, specifically a cabinet—this which then gave way to making new worlds where everything might just walk away at any moment. The feet of a table are now real feet whose legs grow into a tabletop. A hand reaches up in the desire to grasp at the fruit, while the rest of the arm turns into a chandelier. A human figure morphs into a lamp, as if it walked its way into the home it provides light. Each piece is a representation of the emotions and sensations of everyday domestic life.
All of these pieces are inspired by the everyday existence of domestic life. I think of each piece as a thought experiment of contemplating what it is to be a human body in a home. To me, the human body plays a large role in that, what you are hearing and what you are touching. Also, plants and animals for me personally have always also been a part of that. All of these pieces are expressions of that. The second layer of the work then is the aspect that they are all made out of wood. This is a continuation of a ten-year thus far exploration of the material of wood. I am constantly trying to push it as material using a mix of digital and traditional techniques to find new forms and feelings from it. This inevitably becomes taxing on the body, so using figuration is also a representation of the work that has been put into each piece.
Listening in Flower Beds
Vincent Pocsik
2022
97 L x 42 W x 88 H IN
Carved Douglas Fur, Brass Hinges
From the exhibition： Cabinet is Me
“Cabinet is Me” is a search for the different meanings of being a body in a domestic space. The struggles, the happiness, the sexual explorations, and all the memories also lead a person to develop feelings towards the inanimate objects watching them. This leads to the question, what would it be like to be that object, that cabinet.
Figures grow into cabinets, tables, lamps, etc, and are shrouded with the floral patterning of domestic life in both a figurative and literal way. “Cabinet is Me” started from a meditation on what it would be like to be a person's domestic object, specifically a cabinet—this which then gave way to making new worlds where everything might just walk away at any moment. The feet of a table are now real feet whose legs grow into a tabletop. A hand reaches up in the desire to grasp at the fruit, while the rest of the arm turns into a chandelier. A human figure morphs into a lamp, as if it walked its way into the home it provides light. Each piece is a representation of the emotions and sensations of everyday domestic life.
All of these pieces are inspired by the everyday existence of domestic life. I think of each piece as a thought experiment of contemplating what it is to be a human body in a home. To me, the human body plays a large role in that, what you are hearing and what you are touching. Also, plants and animals for me personally have always also been a part of that. All of these pieces are expressions of that. The second layer of the work then is the aspect that they are all made out of wood. This is a continuation of a ten-year thus far exploration of the material of wood. I am constantly trying to push it as material using a mix of digital and traditional techniques to find new forms and feelings from it. This inevitably becomes taxing on the body, so using figuration is also a representation of the work that has been put into each piece.