Planting a garden in my head
2024
Installation in the Atrium at Incinerator Gallery
Concrete, polyurethan resin, epoxy resin, polymer paint, air dry clay, corten steel, sand, flies, garden stakes, tea cup
Image credit: Ginna Rizzo
1. Mum keeps telling me I should meditate - I’d rather pull out weeds. 2024 (crumpet rock)
2. I take my cup of tea outside and pick the string algae from the pond. 2024 (tea rock)
3. Eating your breakfast outside makes you 10% happier. 2024 (toast rock)
4. Egg and bacon muffins are my favourite hangover food. 2024
5. Lunchtime Arrangement 2024
Inspired by Japanese suiseki (scholar’s rocks), Laetitia creates compositions of organic matter that invite meditation on their aesthetic qualities. Mundane objects—a stone or even a hamburger—become focal points for contemplation, transforming the trivial into a centre of deep thought. Through the inclusion of junk food and everyday items, these sculptures prompt viewers to appreciate the beauty in trash and the comfort in high calorie food.
Echoing William Blake’s idea of seeing the world in a grain of sand, Laetitia’s work explores the duality and beauty between nature and suburbia—between stone and object, a picture of the world is revealed through the aesthetics of everyday life. Her hyper-surreal sculptures, crafted from cast epoxy resin, merge the contemplative qualities of nature with suburban reality. These playful, uncanny combinations seek to evoke bodily responses, teetering between intense familiarity and complete absurdity. Infused with narrative, the works reflect personal stories of growth, nostalgia, and navigating a world of uncertainties. Like a collage of experience, they express the contradictions of existence—uneasily optimistic, cheerfully nihilistic—a messy bouquet of life.