Year 5012 - Melanie Ezra - Small World Futures

Melanie Ezra, #unsettledgallery No.1

Small World Futures is a collection of 38 miniature sculptures depicting what life could look like in years to come. Each of these small artworks will be placed in public spaces (#unsettledgallery) around London Bridge. Every day throughout February we will be featuring one of these worlds here on the website. A writer will also use the world as inspiration to create something new and fresh, their words describing the shape of a new world.

Today we discover the Small World Future of.... Melanie Ezra
Last Age: Year 5012

Open Line: 22,017 joined. Designation: Curiosity, sub emo; perplexed.
'What is/was/would be this [undesignated] physical carbon structure'
     Open Line: Singular Mind. Designation: Teaching, sub emo; excited.
     'House/Home for soft bodies before Separation Event'
Open Line 21,123 joined. Designation: Curiosity, sub emo; clarifying.
'Soft bodies resided in House/Home (archaic)? Shell designation?'
     Open Line: Singular Mind. Designation: Teaching, sub emo; excited.
     'Shell designation probable. Safe environmental condition sought for
soft bodies'
Open Line 76,541 joined. Designation: Curiosity, sub emo; excited.
'Shell designation House/Home provides environmental conditions for soft bodies.
Confirmed Authentic?'
     Open Line: Singular Mind. Designation: Teaching, sub emo; triumphant.
     'Confirmed Authentic:
     Ref 209876-4758 {Research: Anthro/Arch; Ancient prehistory}'
Open Line 185,987 joined. Designation: Curiosity, sub emo; wonder.
'Research Artefact Accepted. House/Home Environmental Shell object for pre Separation Event
soft bodies. In what forms does Artefact exist?'
     Line: Singular Mind. Designation: Teaching, sub emo; cautious.
     'Artefact exists in Prime Material Existence'
Open Line 2,903,305 joined. Designation: Curiosity, sub emo; disbelief.
'Artefact exists? Confirm [imperative]. Explain resource acquisition
[imperative]. Describe Locations.'
     Line: Singular Mind. Designation: Teaching, sub emo; defensive.
     'Artefact exists; confirmed. Resources reclaimed [permit:
     307-RED099-carbon/wood/metal]. Artefact is placed on
     Planet Earth in Prime Material Existence only [permission requested]'
Open Line 87,5678,873,902 joined. Designation: Curiosity, sub emo; terror/fear.
'Permission denied for Research Artefact House/Home Environmental Shell
object for pre Separation Event soft bodies to BE in Prime Material Existence.
Citation: Non Proliferation of Objects. Report to Closed Line. End'

Closed Line 7 IMPERATIVE.
'Close Line:
Remove Singular Mind.
Expunge would be Research Artefact House/Home Environmental Shell object for pre Separation Event soft bodies.
Classification: Heresy.
Clause: Pollution of Prime Material Existence.
Sub Clause; Improper Use of Reclaimed Resources.
End.'

Dean Reddick

Melanie Ezra

You can find Melanie Ezra's Small World Future located behind the railings at the top of Weston Street, London Bridge at #unsettledgallery No.1. If you can find it then you can take it home, or perhaps you will leave it for someone else to discover.

Melanie Ezra is a Wales-based fine artist who works using her own original photographs to create beautiful and intricate collages. She often works in series, providing visual responses to external stimuli such as literature, science, and music. She considers herself a specialist in the deconstruction of time and the extension of the moment. Recent works have evolved her practice to include three dimensional mixed media art forms based on dolls, mannequins, and the human form. The theme is always deconstruction and reconstruction, whether this is through a photograph or through her mixed-media works. Ezra openly describes herself as a ‘renegade arts experimentalist’ and is happy dabbling in anything that pushes her work to the limit and broadens her own potential.
https://melanieezra.com/

Dean Reddick is an artist, an art therapist and a lecturer. He uses a range of media and enjoys experimenting with casting processes using plaster, metal and resin to explore the tensions between organic and geometric forms, positive and negative space and the distortions that occur in producing casts. As an artist and art therapist Reddick has a keen interest in the role of art as a cultural phenomenon and as a container for inter-personal meaning. He enjoys working collaboratively and has been a regular exhibitor at Walthamstow's E17 Art Trail as well as exhibiting with CollectConnect. Recently he published Art Therapy in the Early Years: Therapeutic Interventions with Infants, Toddlers and Their Families (pub. 2016, Routledge) alongside co-editor Julia Meyerowitz-Katz.