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"After the Ploughboy" is a pedestal sculpture with the immediate appearance of traditional garden statuary- standing in the middle of a freshly mown lawn.
The genre of nineteenth century garden garden ornamentation, little explored in contemporary sculpture, is appropriated in a challenging and provocative sculpture. The familarity of the formal configuration of statue and pedestal, is placed in an unfamiliar context by the outrageous appropriation, inspired by Jean Francois Millet's "The Sower (1850). This solitary male figure, nude but for large sun hat, is scattering large rhinestones on the surrounding ground, casting his seeds in the wake of an imagined ploughboy. this gentle, camp humour plays not only in the coy pose and mock romantic costuming, but in the basket clutched at his side, brimming and tumbling with rhinestones /seeds."
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