Monument to Fragile Things

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By Claire Jackson
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Dimensions (HxWxD):

65 × 22.5 × 22.5 cm

Materials:

polycaprolactone, Metal base

Primary Medium:

Sculpture

Medium
2025
Signed on Front
Ready to display
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Created during the Summer of Sculpture residency at the Artyard Bankside London, "Monument to Fragile Things" is an abstract white polymorphic sculpture that embodies Claire Jackson’s ongoing exploration of the tension between resilience and delicacy, permanence and transience. The title itself is a meditation on the paradox of constructing something monumental—traditionally a form of enduring commemoration—from the language of fragility. Working with polycaprolactone, Jackson harnesses its unique capacity for organic transformation to create forms that appear precarious yet are structurally sound, challenging assumptions about strength and vulnerability. The white surface amplifies this conceptual ambiguity, suggesting purity, absence, and potential while inviting close inspection of the intricate biomorphic details that seem at once natural and engineered. Jackson’s practice draws deeply from the unseen structures of reality, from the invisible forces of physics to microscopic botanical forms. In Monument to Fragile Things, these references emerge in subtle interlocking shapes and fluid transitions that evoke cellular growth, atoms and planetary bodies in the micro and macro, and the self-organising patterns of nature. The sculpture is the result of a careful negotiation between artist and material: planned geometry collides with the medium’s spontaneous, responsive qualities to generate a tension between order and chance. The artist also invites the viewer to partake as the subject of the art form, interpreting the forms in a playful narrative of collective forms in the phenomenon of Pareidolia. The work also speaks to themes of ephemerality in an age that demands permanence. By creating a "monument" out of forms that appear on the verge of collapse or transformation, Jackson prompts viewers to reflect on the impermanence inherent in all structures—physical, biological, even social—and the value of acknowledging fragility as an essential part of being. Ultimately, Monument to Fragile Things is less a static object than an invitation to observe the subtle interplay of balance, materiality, and meaning. It stands as a testament to Jackson’s wider practice: an intersection of science, nature, and sensory experience that resists easy categorisation, foregrounding instead a quietly radical understanding of form as living inquiry.

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