CLAUDE ANDREW

Born: London, United Kingdom, 1967
Residence: Seattle, WA
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Alone in a Crowd

When I go to a party I inevitably walk in on a crowd. My eyes dart around searching for a familiar face or a safe port -- the kitchen, bar or a table with chips and dip -- some way to merge with the crowd or at least escape the hazing carpet in front of the door. I imagine someone else who sees those eyes and thinks differently: "Yeah, that's right, I am here."

Crowds are different from people. One person is one mind but twelve people are twelve minds plus a crowd mind, a mind not responsible to anyone, a mind which will disappear with the crowd, a mind without a memory.

This sculpture is a self-administered Rorschach test: a crowd without social queues, without gender or race or fashion or religion, without sexual orientation or facial expression. Your reaction is to the thirteenth mind, the crowd without the people.