ERIK BENJAMINS HOOK
Twirling Memory Burner
2023
Laser engraved writing on unsealed copper
5 x 4.5 x 2 in
12.7 x 11.4 x 4.4 cm
Edition of 2
Twirling Memory Burner
2023
Laser engraved writing on unsealed copper
5 x 4.5 x 2 in
12.7 x 11.4 x 4.4 cm
Edition of 2
Twirling Memory Burner
2023
Laser engraved writing on unsealed copper
5 x 4.5 x 2 in
12.7 x 11.4 x 4.4 cm
Edition of 2
Adopting textures and languages from visual art, performance, design, and writing, Erik Benjamins' work champions the sensing body as a savored and necessary perspective with which to flex our relationship to Place and its messy frictions. Benjamins is also inspired by cookbooks for their celebrations of a subjective relationship to place, their function as a tool for sharing knowledge, and their insistence on the powers of the sensory and the social.
Twirling Memory Burner is a poem and artist-made hook that takes inspiration from "Untitled – Plate," a ceramic work by JB Blunk made in 1989.
Benjamins' piece has been intentionally left annealed. It desires a life of good use and will slowly oxidize over time, ideally picking up finger prints and other smudges along the way.
Twirling Memory Burner can easily be installed onto a wall using two screws (detailed instructions are included).