I don't know the meaning of the word failure

 

Living inside my Head - sculpture George Roberts 2022

Every year I submit art works to Grayson Perry's Art Club and each year I fail to have them broadcast 'on the telly'. " Am I disheartened? - well just a little but I  will not give up my sad pursuit of national recognition as an artist of renown!

The theme for the work 'Living in your Head' was provided by Grayson and resonated with me as I spend much of my time living in my head or as the wonderful Toot describes it 'in a reverie'.

My idea was to construct a head from bits and pieces found in our loft and 3d printed in our shed. The concept for the work being; to make and house inside a glass head a retrospective film of my life. Once I started this project, I really enjoyed looking back over my 70 plus years on our planet and making an audio-visual representation of it. The film with soundtrack is now complete and on a pen-drive  held in a printed cup decorated with astro-themes at the centre of my sculpture. My life to date  exists inside my sculpture unopened like Schrodinger's cat awaiting the inexorable passage of time and my ultimate demise. Quite literally, I am living in my head for as long as the sculpture exists. Pity Grayson didn't rate this bit of artistic handy-work but hey-ho - life is full of disappointments!