Outcasts challenges the viewer to consider how often form is overshadowed by function. Rats, like many other creatures and objects, disturb and repulse our social reason. By casting a decaying and degraded rat and preserving it’s anatomy in bronze, the function is removed and the viewer is able to appreciate the object for its form alone.
Fred McGrath Weber, Outcasts (2017). Bronze. Image by Robert Agostino.
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