Goldilock’s Choice
Goldilocks Choice presents three glass houses arranged on a trestle table, each containing a small globe covered in green and blue plasticine. The work draws from the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, particularly the moment of choice, selecting what feels safe, comfortable, or “just right” within someone else’s home.
The glass houses suggest fragility, protection and exposure simultaneously. Transparent yet enclosed, they become symbols of domestic space and the human desire for shelter and belonging. Inside each house, the handmade globes evoke the world itself held within a delicate structure, suggesting that ideas of home are inseparable from our wider social and emotional environments.
The work reflects on how people search for safety and comfort often navigating uncertainty and the boundaries between invitation and intrusion. Referencing a familiar childhood story allows the sculpture to move between innocence and psychological tension.
Through simple forms and recognisable materials, Goldilocks Choice explores the emotional complexities of home: protection and fragility, comfort and unease, familiarity and trespass.
Goldilock’s Choice
Glass, timber and plasticine
Various dimensions
Dust Collective 1.2 St Pauls Gallery 3 AUT Auckland 2009