Jason Walker
ENG
Trophic Cascade, 2024
Porcelain, underglaze, glaze, concrete, slip casting, painting, glazing, sandblasting and concrete polishing, 1240℃, 45 x 38 x 60cm.
Jason Walker's narrative sculptures grow out of real events and places he has personally lived through. He wants to speak to how the experiences we undergo through our bodies reveal our vulnerability as finite beings, and how they remind us that humans, too, belong to the ecosystem we call nature.
Today's culture constantly offers simulations and mediated experiences made possible by technology, at times making us feel we can step outside our own bodies. But he sees physicality as precisely what connects us to one another, and to nature. However far technology advances, the fact that humans are embodied beings and part of nature does not change.
Ultimately, what this work looks at is the relationship between humans and nature. How we perceive and treat nature, in the end, reveals how we understand ourselves. Through this, he asks what it means to live as an embodied being today, in an age dominated by technology, and how we might look at human existence anew.
