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Crafts CouncilDirectoryKaren Thompson

Fragile

Karen Thompson

Scarborough, England

PMN-2 Landmine Trinket Boxes, Karen Thompson

Porcelain trinket boxes with idividual measurements of 6cm x 11.5cm x 11.5cm

Fragile, Karen Thompson

Installation detail, Exploded PMN-2 Porcelain Landmine.

Fragile, Karen Thompson

An installation image taken outside of the Holburne Museum of Art in Bath, 2008

PMN-2 Landmine Trinket box, Karen Thompson

Taking the Fragile installation further, these Landmine Trinket Boxes intend to explore and challenge our associations and expectations of shapes and forms. With the change in material to delicate porcelain and with the pleasing familiar floral imagery, the viewer believes the form to be something other than its original design and function intends. I am interested in reactions caused when preconceptions change.

Fragile, Karen Thompson

Installation detail, Fragile Mines signs were placed around the edges of the installation space.

Fragile

Karen Thompson

Scarborough, England

PMN-2 Landmine Trinket Boxes, Karen Thompson

Porcelain trinket boxes with idividual measurements of 6cm x 11.5cm x 11.5cm

PMN-2 Landmine Trinket box, Karen Thompson

Taking the Fragile installation further, these Landmine Trinket Boxes intend to explore and challenge our associations and expectations of shapes and forms. With the change in material to delicate porcelain and with the pleasing familiar floral imagery, the viewer believes the form to be something other than its original design and function intends. I am interested in reactions caused when preconceptions change.

Fragile, Karen Thompson

Installation detail, Exploded PMN-2 Porcelain Landmine.

Fragile, Karen Thompson

Installation detail, Fragile Mines signs were placed around the edges of the installation space.

Fragile, Karen Thompson

An installation image taken outside of the Holburne Museum of Art in Bath, 2008

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