SCARECROWS, WHERE DO THEY LIVE?
Paper, wood,
plaster, buoy,
oil cans, textile,
textile fibres
A grotesque radiative appearance is, as I think, a premise for a scarecrow to become frightening. Another premise is to investigate the space they inhabit and where they find their potential to protect. A proposition that raises questions like: what do they protect and what are they afraid of? Inherent to the word scarecrow is the interpretation that they scare off birds from newly sown lands and fragile crops that could be eaten by feathered animals. However, I came across circumstances where scarecrows were used to scare off humans or to function as a persona to be a presence when lonely. Within this research scarecrows became a gentle form of self protection and evaluation. They are subjects to their surrounding and maker, lethargically and willing.
This is where they lived for a couple of hours before turning back into the scraped materials they once were. I suppose they liked finding comfort there among the yellow road directions, out of the rain.
