Utilizing a multi-disciplinary practice including photography and installation, Samuel Lyon Spice explores the relationship of objects and images related to his experience of gay socio-sexual environments such as backstreet nightclubs, saunas and fetish events.
Viewing memory to immaterial and contained within the mind as a distorted and degraded series of stills, a small section of stills taken from a film.
These stills are processed into two and three dimensional works which do not contain full picture, but isolate elements which give bare significance. This allows these elements to be considered and dissected, the importance of each to be expanded upon with further analysis; exploring image and material in relation to more architectural and social concerns.
Connected to his own experience of sexuality and relationships. Through this process of decoding, the artist explores the pertinence of these memories to comment on the effect of living within a society, which can be argued to still be deeply connected to traditional Christian attitudes towards morality.
Viewing memory to immaterial and contained within the mind as a distorted and degraded series of stills, a small section of stills taken from a film.
These stills are processed into two and three dimensional works which do not contain full picture, but isolate elements which give bare significance. This allows these elements to be considered and dissected, the importance of each to be expanded upon with further analysis; exploring image and material in relation to more architectural and social concerns.
Connected to his own experience of sexuality and relationships. Through this process of decoding, the artist explores the pertinence of these memories to comment on the effect of living within a society, which can be argued to still be deeply connected to traditional Christian attitudes towards morality.
