Vicious Circle
isabel
This contemporary artwork features a bold circular arrangement of distressed steel saw blades, each segment riveted to the next, creating a jagged, menacing form. The monochromatic palette and textured surface emphasize the raw, industrial aesthetic, evoking a sense of decay and the reimagining of harsh materials.
Old discipline, new context. Steel – once the cutting edge of Britain. Now rusting, rotting, melding with mud, residual oil rainbowing in puddles.Steel, tamed by fire, set hard and jagged to cut through,Straight edge turned circle, weighted, rolling…The physical division of its old self creating something new.Cutting the cutting tool, breaking the man made edge, causing the circle, taming the violent beauty of the blade – here is a story.