Table
Daisy Richardson
Table
Daisy Richardson
Reference
SAS0004_001
Year
2011
Dimensions (cm)
Height: 73
Length: 50
Depth: 86
Length: 50
Depth: 86
Current Location
Glasgow Independent Studio, Trongate, Glasgow
Suitable Locations for the Work
- Indoors
- Freestanding
About the Artwork
This work is part of an ongoing series depicting domestic objects being subsumed by natural objects or substances. The levitating table references The Mirror, a film made by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1975.
Background, history, commissioner of the work
Table' is one piece in an ongoing series of works looking at domestic objects being overtaken or undermined by natural objects/ substances or a constructed version of them. The way in which the table floats a couple of inches off the ground, suspended by the stone, references the leviatation scene in 'The Mirror' by Andrei Tarkovsky. I wanted the rocky substance to appear to be at once lifting and engulfing the table. I selected the table as it had already had a life of its own and is what I wanted aesthetically. It has been shown once, in a solo exhibition titled 'Terrestrial Objects' in Glasgow Project Room (2011)
Thematic/contextual information
While this piece can work in any setting it is best with space around it so that the uncanny aspect of it can come to the fore, as if it has appeared from nowhere, mid-action. As with any sculpture, it can be completely changed depending on the manner of its display.
