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Lifegiving, Clogged Duct

Esmé Matthews

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Esmé Matthews is a contemporary artist whose practice explores the tension between creation and decay, focusing on material transformation and the natural process of entropy. Working primarily with rusted steel, found objects, and other industrial materials, she investigates the life cycle of these objects- examining how they shift between states of order and disorder, structure and ruin.

Esmé Matthews is a contemporary artist whose practice explores the tension between creation and d...

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This work is an investigation into entropy and the tension between creation and decay. The installation shows a bottle actively rusting a piece of steel, slowing dripping vinegar from a nipple onto the metal. In conjunction is an object made from rusted nails and rubber nipples secured to a discarded bottle, existing as a found object in a decrepit windowsill. These objects are found in an abandoned home, blending with the ruin that comes with time.

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through a doorway, a plastic livestock feeding bottle drips vinegar out of a nipple onto a piece of rusting steel sheet metal.
A piece of rusted metal with liquid flowing down it.
A discarded bottle with bottle nipples nailed onto the outside with rusted nails and screws protruding through the tip of the nipples.
A discarded bottle with bottle nipples nailed onto the outside with rusted nails and screws protruding through the tip of the nipples.

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Lifegiving, Clogged Duct

This work is an investigation into entropy and the tension between creation and decay. The installation shows a bottle actively rusting a piece of steel, slowing dripping vinegar from a nipple onto the metal. In conjunction is an object made from rusted nails and rubber nipple...

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