This is Where The Magic Happens

Alabasta marbel, steel. H35cm W73cm D35cm

“I want to explore the body not as a mortal vessel or as a political and  cultural vehicle related to notions of identity, but as a representation of  immense otherness and profundity.” 

A fractured femur bone, enlarged to monumental scale, hangs suspended within a rigid metal frame.

The sculpture is a study of the body’s ability to repair. The scaffold simply provides the conditions that allow healing to occur. Through the opposition of materials and the precise, calibrated balance between fracture and support, Scott examines the strangeness and profundity of biological recovery. 

Marble, long associated with classical sculpture and the idealised bodies of antiquity, carries with it connotations of vitality and transcendence rooted in the human form. Light permeates the alabaster, giving the femur a gentle radiance that intimates an active internal process. Scott evokes the intelligence of healing as more ineffable and miraculous than the clinical systems and structures engineered to manage it.