Another Cornelia Parker from yesterday’s visit to the Tate.
In an interview with the Tate
curator, she suggested that an explosion was something she had wanted to do for a long time. To her, an explosion is an ‘archetypal’ image, familiar to us from childhood to adult life. She said that somehow the idea and imminence of the ‘explosion’ in society seemed such an iconic thing. ‘You were being constantly bombarded with its imagery, from the violence of the comic strip, through action films, in documentaries about Super Novas and the Big Bang, and least of all on the news in never ending reports of war.’
