Brick Table Michael Wainwright

The first piece in the urban myths series is the younger sister of the Brick Chair. Some people lose thier sense of perspective, Michael had lost his sense of scale. This piece was a massive change of direction for Michael. Prior to this he had been working on organic work but the work from others it had inspired was so far from Michaels intentions he felt another avenue was forced on him. His organic pieces had aimed to show our distance from nature, often using the Christ crown of thorns to illustrate natures rejection of man and, through his softening through modernity, central heating, cars, tv, western man can no longer survive for long left out in the wild. This piece turned the outdoors indoors. Intended as the view from the homeless looking in on suburban security through lit up windows in otherwise dark streets, the exclusion from that comfort. The house is turned inside out, flipped through infinity. Probably the greatest work of art of its' day regarding relative wealth, homelessness and division in society.