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”Slicing the Onion No. 006" Series 2 of 5: 3-D engraved wall sculpture

2015

Title: 1817 9 Ave SE Materials: Ceramic, embroidery, rubber bands, mixed media Date: 2015 Dimensions: 13 x 8 x 8 inches Description: This quonset is a miniature replica of one located in Calgary, AB, Canada, at the address which titles the piece. Carly Slade about her work: "My work investigates the gendering and ownership of labour and space. I create egalitarian worlds in which all types of labour are celebrated equally. My scenes centre on meticulously created ceramic buildings that have been made to scale using Google Map images. Sourcing images in this way allows me to travel back in time, in some places up to 5 years, to choose the specific moment to depict the building. I recreate places of blue-collar work, typically spaces where I as a woman do not fit in, regardless of my years working in those fields. Google Maps allows me to be a voyeur of these spaces from the safety of my studio. I soften the buildings with embroidery, while showering them with tender attention to detail. The buildings then become “mine”, allowing me to place them in a romanticized world where the working class dream is sincere. I create the buildings three-dimensionally using two-point perspective thus the building looks normal from one vantage point but as the viewer begins to move around the building becomes skewed. This fun-house effect coupled with the noticeably absent people; hints that although this world I created seems to be real, it is a utopian dream that is out of reach. My materials are chosen carefully for their content and baggage. First clay to make the focal point: ceramic buildings that have been pierced to allow me to embroider directly into them. I treat the clay like a carpenter would a sheet of lumber. Angles must be marked, and measurements checked twice before I cut and bevel. I toil for hours in my studio carefully handcrafting these buildings using similar tools and techniques to those who erected it its actuality. Their landscapes are created for the buildings from mostly found materials that I have altered in some way. Each found the material speaks to a time and place; industrial foam speaks to mass production and construction sites, embroidery feels like the comfort of home and woman’s work. The found objects are carefully chosen to add to the context in which the building will exist, like alters for holy...

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