The Thousands

Sometimes when I’m at art school, surrounded by crazy turp-soaked painters, I wonder what life would have been like if I had decided to study something rational like physics. I imagine myself living an orderly existence surrounded by wonderful textbooks. But let’s face it, physics nerds are just as creative.

Roy Ananda’s recent show, The Imperfectionist will make you wonder if Ananda is an artist, a mad scientist, or both. His sculptures are fashioned to a set of perplexing, yet unbreakable laws (for example, every piece attached to the wall is hung by a single nail). Trying to figure out the method behind the madness is puzzling, but ultimately logical…in an illogical kind of way.

Equipped with an arsenal of bright coloured balsa, Ananda takes on sculpture with an interrogative Doc-like zeal. The hobby-shop chaos is shaped by his self-imposed devotion to the frenetic process of ‘making’. There is nothing I like better than an artist who wants to get down and dirty with materials, especially when it’s constructed like this.

- Images courtesy of the artist and Dianne Tanzer Gallery