Mansanas 2007

Craig Kauffman made this sculpture, called Mansanas, out of cast resin. The colour is really something - it's not quite pink, not quite orange, but somewhere wonderfully in between, like a sun-faded memory. Looking closely, the surface is smooth and almost glassy, like candy, isn’t it? The light plays across it, creating these bright highlights. It's hard to tell how he achieved this level of smoothness, but it gives the sculpture a kind of sensual, tactile quality. I keep wanting to reach out and touch it, even though I know I shouldn't! The way the light is trapped inside the form makes me think of those West Coast light and space artists like Larry Bell, who were also using resin to explore these ideas about perception and space. The ambiguity of the material and the colour is really where it’s at - the kind of thing that keeps you coming back for more.