Scott Fife

Fife creates these wonderful sculptures from paper, cardboard, glue, screws and nails. The sculptures themselves seem rather fragile and delicate, much like a memory or a dream. Memory being waht many of the pictures seem to be, as they are old portraits of celebrities, the fragility of the materials play into this nature of the work. The dashes of colour present weave this fading memory state of the busts. The work is of quite a sizable nature becoming imposing upon the viewer, this is added to by the almost cybernetic style with the bolts and screws pasting together panels, robot counterparts of the originals there to replace them, turns these from nostalgic works into something a little threatening. 

Cassius Clay, aka Muhammad Ali is one of these huge busts, taking a great likeness to the original. There despite the possible threatening nature that could arise from such things, there is a definite playful element to this, taking one back to being a child, making things out of cardboard and plastic etc to play with, creating things so you could become your favorite character or figure. The Picture of Elvis below makes one think of all the cardboard microphones and guitars that people would have made as children to be like their idol.