Lin May Saeed
Saeed鈥檚 works are mostly made of so-called 鈥減oor materials鈥� such as Styrofoam, cardboard or tool steel. Her iconographic frame of reference includes Egyptian statuary, Greco-Roman sculpture and natural history museum displays, among other things. She was drawn to Styrofoam due to its essentially unattractive and difficult nature, which she sought to aesthetically redeem, despite and because of its essentially ruinous use of and impact upon nature. Generally speaking, the work becomes especially relevant in our post-enlightenment, Anthropocene paradigm, where the relationship between the so-called natural world and humanity is being radically re-evaluated. Nevertheless, Saeed鈥檚 works are not doctrinal at all nor do they have a moralizing undertone. They are rather narrative and not without humor.
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Saeed鈥檚 works are mostly made of so-called 鈥減oor materials鈥� such as Styrofoam, cardboard or tool steel. Her iconographic frame of reference includes Egyptian statuary, Greco-Roman sculpture and natural history museum displays, among other things. She was drawn to Styrofoam due to its essentially unattractive and difficult nature, which she sought to aesthetically redeem, despite and because of its essentially ruinous use of and impact upon nature. Generally speaking, the work becomes especially relevant in our post-enlightenment, Anthropocene paradigm, where the relationship between the so-called natural world and humanity is being radically re-evaluated. Nevertheless, Saeed鈥檚 works are not doctrinal at all nor do they have a moralizing undertone. They are rather narrative and not without humor.
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