Pit

Continuing the theme of social commentary, Richard Hughes’ bed, Pit (2004) leans idly draped against a wall, its stuffing coming out of a gaping hole, discarded, the form absent. Hughes questions the status of the junk littering the city-centre Whereas some beds previously mentioned have similarities towards the finery of everyday objects. Richard Hughes uses the detritus and abandoned artefacts from everyday. Hughes’ work is divided into two types, one, immaculate sculptures cast in resin of mundane, unpleasant objects and the other of odds and ends of found objects. It appears that Hughes is interested in culture, or rather a sub-culture and his bed is the flotsam of the urban hinterland, the installations signifying this concept,(Farquharson 2005). In the same way, Rachael Whiteread uses resin to cast her beds, conversely her concepts are introspective and psychologically important. Whiteread presents negative space full of emotional resonance are more psychologically determined.