Heather Ramsdale

She is a sculptor who's art is focusing on the domestic aspects of life, and our connection to the objects that may inhabit the space.

• "Fall From Grace" 2009
• "Quarrelfuck" 2009
• These pieces had to do with the objects that we find in our homes, mainly tables, but they were taken rearranged and repurposed. In a way that they would have never been used. 
• "24 Hours" 2009 
• This is find one of her most interesting works that documented her movement throughout her apartment in 24 hours.  Showing the "dead spaces" of where she lived.

Breaking away from where she lived to places that become a surrogate home, the automobile.

• "Backseat dreams" 2009
• This was the beginning of her exploration of the framework and chassie of cars.
• "Wolf Car" 2010
• "Real-Fake-Believe-Make-Travel-Machine" 2009
• Lights hooked up to a car battery under a constructed chassie.
• "Separate Time Alone" 
• The full experience and forced but voluntary reaction and interaction with the piece.  Chanting playing through the tailpipe as you lay under the lights.

I really enjoy looking at her work and her basic ideas of shape and form are intriguing and engaging. Her concepts of the domestic life and what we cherish that may show status and wealth, and what keeps us attached to these things over something that would truly be precious.  The objects that were placed in the bay windows of the brick-row houses in Philly.  

• "Black Thunder" 2011
• "White Lightneing" 2011
• Using a display and having objects interacting with a base and not just put something on. taking the pedestal to the next level.

Using found objects. 

Synthetic matherials to make us feel better 

OBJECT ATTACHMENT= SYNTHETIC EMOTION

Over all I found her inspiring and her work to be creative and thought provoking.