2005
Robert Wynne
Manly, New South Wales, Australia
Brain I
Blown and sandblasted glass with LED lighting
47 H x 23 W x 11 D cm
Looking at a brain is uncomfortable. This small, bizarre, alien-looking organ provides us with a sense of self. Self. Who we are, what we think, what we believe. It provides us with meaning and purpose – it might even be the fountainhead of the human soul. This bowl of sausages turned out on a plate.
This piece is laced with incongruity and contrast. An icon of unfathomed cosmology is presented as a decorative object. An organ that is fragile, fleshy and strangely incongruous (in any setting) is rendered in a hard, cold material with great ethereal beauty. Light and meaning, gauche and chic, surgery and art, imagination and electricity – and all the while, we are looking at the seat of our own self-awareness.
Photographer: Robert Wynne