Scott Wright

I am drawn to the aged, the battered, the discarded and the forgotten. Incorporating found objects, consumer detritus, bits of this and that, the effluvia of our shared, forgotten and infinitely manufactured landscape, my sculptural assemblage pieces contain objects and materials that are easily recognizable; familiar items heavily used, cherished mementos of lives long gone. Each piece contains both the familiar and the new, yet resonate with a history both real and mythical, reminding us of our fleeting and tentative place within the world we share. My intent is to draw out the memories of these objects, imbuing them with a new life, re-imagining their purpose and meaning, while paying tribute their history. I play with those memories, juxtaposing them against one another in an attempt to subvert the ostensible object, while harnessing its respective power in a new relationship. In combining contradictory vocabularies, the goal is to achieve a meaning beyond, or between the boundaries of its individual language: the authority and power inherent in the object, inscribed with societal ideals, sentimentality and values of the vernacular item or photograph, juxtaposed against a back-drop of coordinating and complimentary ideas. Salvaged material is an ideal medium in which to work. A “found object” is just an ordinary thing until it’s presented in a new way. By collecting and maintaining these objects and re-inventing them, I prolong their lives, re-imagining an object or a photograph – in relation to its original use and perceived intention.My new work breaks somewhat from the medium in which I have been working the past few years. Working with found objects and photographs are truly the passion of my creative heart, but I have been creating new panels, which are devoid of objects entirely. Nevertheless, the new panels continue to reference the same ideals of dreamy, fuzzy, forgotten history.When working I always try to make things that create a new story from disparate objects and images, to fill the gap in the understanding that the imagination uses as its canvas – to see more than remembered.