Very Useful Things

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Very Useful Things 1997-2000

In Some notes on the phenomenology of making: The search for the motivated the author, sculptor Robert Morris argues for the condition of making, framing art as a process of phenomena – moving beyond the practice of critiquing the ‘thing’ or object in isolation (which is left over from making) and exploring it as a complex sum of thinking/materiality/making and behaviour.

In LeAmon’s collection of very useful things she references the economic, cultural and social forces of use-value, function manufacture, labour and time as being the condition of designing. These works ponder the narratives applied to the areas of art, design and craft toward a greater understanding of producing ‘things’.

• A very useful thing 1999, lambda digital print, 800 x 1200mm
• A very useful thing: the thing is 1999, balsa wood, 600x600x400mm
• S41212 1999, balsa wood, 620x440x300mm
• Large T-pot model 1999, balsa wood, 660x700x550