Mark Manders

Unfired Clay Figure

2005–2006
Iron chairs, painted epoxy, wood, and various materials
225 × 150 × 300 cm
Private collection

MM: Creating an imaginary space is actually a very interesting and meaningful act. It is like creating a blank sheet of paper. You create a space for thinking. When I started on this work, the beams that are interlinked with the body ended in a pencil with its tip touching one of the three rooms in the floor plan. I liked the fact that the pencil was standing still and the figure was not alive. In the end, I removed the pencil between the floor plan and the clay figure.