Urban Interventions
Marcel Hoogstad Hay
Urban Interventions
Through this work I explore the ideas around the everyday, ornament, the handmade, and public space as a site for artistic interventions. I have investigated these ideas by installing highly finished glass objects in aesthetically banal, mundane spaces. This creates a contrast that is furthered by the polarities of the handmade and industrially manufactured, and ornament and the aesthetic of modernist architecture. Through this work I aim to instigate chance encounters between people and my artworks, and the potential for art to disrupt the routine of life.