Joseph Marr is an Australian Artist of English/Maori heritage who lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Working in a number of media including painting, sculpture, video and photography, his art is conceptually oriented and generally concerned with issues of consciousness.
“Working with sugar is wonderful and difficult. It’s so colourful and textural, having similarities to paint. But then there is the temperature which is firstly dangerous but also it drops so quickly which influences the viscosity, so I find myself having to work really quickly to get what I need.
It’s a sensory overload, the smell, the colour, the heat and the honey like movement… it’s sharp like glass and smooth like Marble and at the same time rough like concrete… unpredictable.
Sugar is a sensual thing we suck on like a drug each day, it’s an energy source, a life source in everything. Plants are all converting light into energies such as sugars in the photosynthesis process. Astronomers have discovered simple sugar molecules floating in the gas around a star some 400 light-years away, suggesting the possibility of life on other planets. The list goes on giving me ideas in every direction to make sculptures with sugar as the medium.”
Images courtesy of Joseph Marr
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