De-polariszumab 1,2 and 3

25cm x 60cm (self-healing concrete, ceramics and recycled aggregates)

De-polariszumab is a fictitious drug name for anti-polarisation.

These works mirror the polarisation now embodied and fostered in contemporary life. They speak of an antidote, however, they are heavy, oversized and difficult pills to swallow.

De-polariszumab 1 is a pill split into two halves: black and white, with different copper cables, it is a metaphor for differing ideological positions, facilitated by its own bespoke cabling network. Each half looks beautiful, is self-contained, and feels right. Put together as one,they feel irreconcilable, poles apart.

De-polariszumab 2 demonstrates ideas or ideological positions as a spectrum, because everything can be regarded as a spectrum. Black ceramics sitting in a white concrete matrix grades to white ceramics embedded in a black concrete matrix. In this transition, there is the centre, which passes through the grey spectrum, where nothing is black and white. To realise we live in spectrums is to see the world as one, not as different.

De-polariszumab 3 This final piece introduces colour. Black and white on the extremities and colour towards the middle. This pill’s medicine is to push the idea that the middle ground is where life is colourful. Compromise is colourful because it requires seeing beyond ourselves.

De-polarisation is difficult because it requires taking all these pills.