THE MAUSOLEUM SCULPTURES
The Mausoleum Sculptures is the first series of twenty four sculptures that specifically attempts to broach the subject of man's incessant desire to construct visual monuments and leave them with the full intention of asserting claims to the presence of a past, present, and future life. In my humble approach I have deliberately wherever possible made it a work of rule that the materials that I have used are found or recycled wherever possible. I have done this with the deliberate thought that such constructions are motivated on the principle that it is every person's right to create out of a sense of fun or a required necessity born of passion for the creating of visual structures. By choice I am not religious, but I cannot escape (and nor do I wish to) my formative years of being surrounded and at times overwhelmed by the visual adornments that graced the interiors of the Catholic churches that I was compelled to attend. To this day I am of the opinion that religion no matter as to how misguided and in what ever form has greatly contributed to the quality and expansion of a visual repertoire that has had a huge impact on sculpture, painting and contemporary architecture. With the Mausoleum Sculptures it has been my intention to intuitively construct a whole spectrum of visual conduits that express the idea of homage, devotion, geographic locations, love and tragic loss.
Galvin Harrison - Copenhagen 2017
