Intimations: Eleanor Lakelin

‘Intimations’ marks the evolution of a growing cast of experiments in Lakelin’s articulation of the vessel form. Born amidst the overgrowth of memory and matter, perennial themes of liminality, entropy, and classical order continue to underwrite the work’s otherworldly spirit.  A deepening dialogue between machined form and the chaotic emergence of burr is staged between each piece. Together they animate a universal physics of inside and outside, or void and containment, synonymous with the rituals and symbolism poured in and out of one of civilisation’s oldest object forms. Form is pushed to new limits, in certain instances turned inside-out, with surface and material becoming medium for something perhaps more akin to a mass, a figure, or a body. Allegories between the vessel form and personhood are here at their most corporeal. The evolving presence found in ‘Intimations’ is one of a communion gradually coming into focus, a scene in which space begins to feel populated by beings of a different character.