Three Imaginary Boys reconciles the iconography of modernity with a distinctly postmodern sensibility. Functionality is reimagined as intimacy. Suspended between the decorative and the pedestrian, our objects take on a restless serenity, a timeless half life between the temporal and the infinite. The veneer of emotional opacity is never nihilistic, but rather provocatively life affirming.
Finding the enigmatic potential in the unrelentingly banal is a twisted sort of gift. Everything plays host to magic but interpreting labyrinthine shadow meanings into each and every ol thing can be dizzying to be sure. But no bother. The Cure implores us to seek the vitality in the workaday world, to unearth whimsy within the wear and tear of consumer appliances. Beneath the performative conceit of the scene is a delicate, elegiac shadow world, a place where the mundane contains multitudes.
Practicality is caricatured, and reconceived as spectacle. The carefully calibrated minimalism of the composition is tempered with a dose of ambiguity, though the objects are a looking glass or hidden portal to an unfamiliar, perhaps daring, new dimension. Though there is certainly an overlay of restraint to it we can’t help but feel that the scene is saturated: with melancholy, wonder, and a curious inner fragility.
