SIREN HEART (1986)
38"h x 42"w x 16"d, 48 lbs. (95 x 107 x 41 cm,22 kilos).
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“Siren Heart” senses sound, light, temperature and the movement
of people
around it. It is a large, assembled, wall-hung sculpture
including a World War II air raid
siren (rarely goes off),
three hairblowers, an electric knife cutting on bone, hair
curlers,
telephone (it works!), house slippers, beads, clock, bicycle pump,
unidentifiable implement, sun glasses, cigarettes, electric
meters,
switches, rubberglove, lavender, strap and other objects inspired
by
love and its consequences. All its functions are controlled by a
fancifully drawn red heart-shaped circuit board with blinkling
red,
yellow, and green LEDs displaying its continuous electronic
operations.
The artwork senses ambient temperature, light, sounds (usually
conversation) and the movement of warm bodies (via an infra-red
motion
detector).
This
heart is not only about the saccharine sentiment that the
valentine
shape has come to represent: It touches upon more painful aspects
of
relationships of the heart. Those of family ties and conjugal
consequences which are often blind and bitter, fraught with
destructive
deadlocks and startling crises. It is a sculpture with
autobiographical content, done for
personal reasons and until now has remained in the artist's
collection.
Jim Pallas 2003
A multiple and a
print
derived from Siren Heart
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