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I investigate the site or environment for which I am to create a
work; a public urban or natural, interior or exterior place, a
museum or a gallery.
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For inspiration I look to the unexpected locations or methods of
presenting the work, research the place’s history, folklore, its
surrounding current and past architecture and/or topography,
contextually related materials and objects.
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Following this investigation through a process of reflection,
I come to an appreciation and understanding of the site which
helps me develop an image which is at once dream-like yet
familiar, poetically meaningful, and conceptually intriguing;
unleashing a hidden life and unexpected history in the
commonplace.
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 Via assemblage, an attention to detail
and fine craftsmanship, a versatile use
of materials and juxtaposition, I create
works which make the improbable
appear plausible, while challenging
expected notions of how we
perceive and interact
with the environment.
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| The resulting pieces, in effect, take on an identity, a personal,
and often previously unimagined history, until they are
complete and believable.  |
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Brian Goggin, December, 1998
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