K MEREDITH LEAR-PERKINS
DOMESTIC SPECIMENS
The domestic sculptures address the issue of the artist’s displacement from rural to urban. They are of a technology indicative of urban Atlanta but retain the aesthetics from the artist’s past and home in rural Burgin, Kentucky. Many of the objects are based on the term, skeuomorph. The word refers to a design element that may no longer have a functional necessity due to the advancements in technology. The term comes from the Greek words ‘skeuos’ meaning vessel, tool or implement and ‘morphe’ meaning form.
