_Sculpture
”The bird figures came about during the building of The Last Supper. I wanted to portray man in this picture of religion... but I wanted to emphasise the point that the human being is just a species. By sticking bird skulls on human bodies it did this for me. It showed us as creatures.
Since then I have used them in loads of my work. I kind of think of them as an ‘everyman’. Sometimes the passive observer, sometimes victim, sometimes perpetrator....but usually adding something to the piece by exposing a characteristic of the human species. I like to show what we’ve evolved into...warts n all... and expose the humour in our weaknesses.
- GILES WALKER
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The bird figures came about during the building of The Last Supper. I wanted to portray man in this picture of religion... but I wanted to emphasise the point that the human being is just a species. By sticking bird skulls on human bodies it did this for me. It showed us as creatures.
Since then I have used them in loads of my work. I kind of think of them as an ‘everyman’. Sometimes the passive observer, sometimes victim, sometimes perpetrator....but usually adding something to the piece by exposing a characteristic of the human species. I like to show what we’ve evolved into...warts n all... and expose the humour in our weaknesses.
- GILES WALKER