Porcelain Disposition I

Keeping in line with the Porcelain Disposition series, the work slowly evolves however the elements of it's meaning remains the same. Here it is not just so much about the correlation to the physical space but also to our psyches.

Metamorphosis

There's this notion in my society at the time where masculinity meant that to be masculine, expression of love in a nonsexual way towards another male was unacceptable. Men who wore shades of colours that the wider society has compartmentalized as feminine like colours, were seen as effeminate and did not represent what masculinity  meant for that particular generation or social class. The work attempts to break those barriers, and set a tone  within a space that spoke to a type of freedom.

Porcelain Disposition VIII

The Porcelain Series is a dialogue between the concepts of stability and instability and also the traditional and contemporary realities of life. Born from my nomadic experiences within the last six years, my yearning for stability is embodied within the exploration of the human form in a three-dimensional space. Every minute of our lives is spent in physical and psychological dialogue with the space around us and the contorted bodies within these oversaturated three-dimensional spaces have been transmogrified towards semi-abstraction mimicking hard ceramic surfaces. The porcelain figurines in many older Jamaican homes seem to be ever-present and are symbolic of a stability that the younger generation of Jamaicans no longer seem to be able to achieve. The contortions and attempted transformation of the bodies represent the psychological struggle.

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Monique Gilpin