Joolz Cave-Berry

These objects are all connected. They form an extended self-portrait by abstraction.

The objects relate to the journeys that he, along with many others, make during life. The metaphor is the boat, a series of vessels with unique features and cargos. The works are initially very personal autobiographic pieces that later inform his agenda, the exploration of inherited systems and processes.

The 'baggage' vessels test the postal system's ability to cope with objects outside their normal terms of reference and relates to the systems that affect old contemporary lives, education, communication, politics and social conditions.The statistics, relating to the baggage vessels’ journey in the postal system, equate with surprising accuracy to the social statistics Joolz has researched.

Wire and plaster sculpture

Red Rock

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