Pressure: Michael Ray Sculptor

  Some of us thrive on it  other hate it, I've come to realise that given a deadline  I will wait and wait til I only just have time to complete, barring any unforseens which when creating are frequent. Two exhibitons to complete for, fours days to go. Side by side at the Hunt Museum Limerick with the Crafts Council, Christmas show in Wexford Arts centre. Some of the work is still only in my head,some has been 'deconstructed' several times already and maybe ready to go. Thick chunks of layered glass alongside vessels containing embedded collaged and layered photographic images, to sit, or stand 'side by side' images of another time, a sailing vessel born in west cork yet working its passage around the Falkland isles for most of the twentieth century. Worn out it has  been returned from whence it came, soulfully sad it sits slowly rotting while people quietly forget its significance.

 

Immortalised as a postage stamp both here and in the Falklands. My inspiration for a body of work looking at transistion, beginnings and endings.

by Michael Ray