Janet Waring

STATEMENT

...an idea of shared descent, to whatever extent real or imagined, seems universally to be the most potent basis for communal solidarity.

Social and Cultural Anthropology: a very short introduction/ Monaghan and Just (p.101)Oxford University Press

An Anthropology of Kind

I draw on associations and inspirations derived from hybrid influences, natural history and world culture. My work is an imaginary anthropology put forward through paintings, sculptures and drawings as artefacts. The anthropological notion has grown out of a consideration for and fascination with the idea of what constitutes the sacred. The work is in consideration of humankind's apparent dislocation from nature.
The sculptures, deal with an aspect of intimacy, that of the domestic accumulation of useful objects. I acquire, collect and conserve these items in their new status as discarded and redundant. They exist in a potential state in which a former vitality can undergo a transformation. As in Totem I often make use of the bilateral symmetry inherent in objects used by people to reflect the embedded anthropic vision that permeates society.
The paintings are created as pictorial equations. Classical origins of landscape are part of the...