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The birth of tragedy
2008
Acrylic, toothpicks, spray paint, wood, adhesive and paper clay.
15 x 43 x 20 cm
Private collection

Inspired by Nietzsche’s philosophical doctrine The Birth of Tragedy, I create a form that symbolically interprets and illustrates the marriage between architecture and the organic, the controlled structure and the wild orgasm. The supporting geometric form (the Apollo) serves as a base holding up a chaotic and unstable organic mass (the Dionysian). The relationship of both bodies serves as a study of how sanity and insanity could co-exist in an environment. Made out of humble materials bought at a regular supermarket and painstakingly constructed, the sculpture serves as a play on visual representations of historically relevant writings that I have become passionately interested in since taking Philosophy during my year at Rhode Island School of Design.