Recently his sculptural installations have made use of domestic materials and associations such as shea butter and black soap, with his work often
referencing bodily experience, and the effect of space and atmosphere upon psychology and emotion.
Not exact matches
This sense of alienness provides a subtle,
bodily experienced frame of
reference within which it becomes easy to construct and perpetuate stereotypes.
Instead, he portrays human
experience as a process of selective abstraction from an environment within which it is included, and to which it makes natural
bodily reference.
Incorporating
references to art history, popular culture, nature and his own
experiences, Long's work embraces modernist convention as a means of connecting inner and outer realities, forming pathways between one's mental and
bodily experiences and the surrounding environment.