The wolf and the goat are common motifs in the foundational mythologies and cosmologies throughout Eurasia and North America. Both wolf and goat have both nurtured powerful mythological heroes in their infancy. The totemic value of these creatures aided shamans to seek knowledge and transformed spiritual experiences into non-ordinary reality by identifying with the spirit of these creatures.
These sculptures offer up a modern visceral urban folk myth. Craft is aided by technology to afford a new status by providing a new kind perceivable reality, the non-physical digital reality. The backdrop to these sculptures provides an arc for this last chapter of the narrative.
The paintings portray the fragility of civilisation where time, war and natural disaster take their toll and the myths dye with them too. Nature reclaims what she has sown and a new cycle starts again.
These sculptures offer up a modern visceral urban folk myth. Craft is aided by technology to afford a new status by providing a new kind perceivable reality, the non-physical digital reality. The backdrop to these sculptures provides an arc for this last chapter of the narrative.
The paintings portray the fragility of civilisation where time, war and natural disaster take their toll and the myths dye with them too. Nature reclaims what she has sown and a new cycle starts again.
Wolf
Width 260mm Height 740mm Length 1230mm
500 GSM Bockingford Watercolour paper,
PVA, Expanding Foam.
Mark and Paul Cummings 2013
PVA, Expanding Foam.
Mark and Paul Cummings 2013
Goat (Capella)
Width 215 mm Height 720m Length 730 mm
300 micron Grey Card, PVA, Expanding Foam,
300 micron Grey Card, PVA, Expanding Foam,
Wood filler, Horns (3D printed PLA).
Mark and Paul Cummings 2014
Mark and Paul Cummings 2014
Goat (Almathea)
Width 215 mm Height 720m Length 730 mm
300 micron Grey Card, PVA, Expanding Foam,
300 micron Grey Card, PVA, Expanding Foam,
Wood filler, Horns (3D printed PLA).
Mark and Paul Cummings 2014
Mark and Paul Cummings 2014
Goat Head
Width 220 mm Height 410 mm Length 300 mm
300 micron Grey Card, PVA, expanding foam, wood filler
Horns (3D printed PLA).
Mark and Paul Cummings 2014
Mark and Paul Cummings 2014
Antlers
300 Micron Grey Card, PVA, expanding foam
930mm x 850 mm x 390 mm
Mark and Paul Cummings 2014
Assassin’s Temple
Acrylic on Canvas
76cm x 75cm
2013 Paul Cummings
Arab Spring
Acrylic on Canvas
101cm x 76cm
2013 Paul Cummings
Quake
Acrylic on Canvas
76cm x 101cm
2013 Paul Cummings
