Dimensions are roughly 6' 3" tall and 18" wide. red earthenware clay under colored engobes, fired and glazed to roughly 1950 degrees fahrenheit
Artist's Statement
People think that they need everything. We seem to need cell phones, laptops, ipods and now iphones more than ever. And as a result, many things are ignored. Wireless internet and cell phones are widely used and few think of the health consequences of the encompassing radio waves produced. We chat on cell phones when crossing a busy street and do not think to pay attention to what we may be walking into. And some have to be listening to their ipod, choosing to be in complete ignorance of their present surroundings.
This work questions how important our need of technological convenience is through the imagery of demons, fire, ghosts and mustaches. A man in the middle portion of the sculpture "modern-day concerns," is in enormous trouble but is focused on a cell phone dangling in front of him. It is more important for him to get to that phone than to confront his harmful environment. Below, the ghosts are content to float listening to their ipods, and above the demons network their computers to the drowning masses. And the devil is on top, hard to see and elusive as always, making it all happen.
Adams Puryear, 2008
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