When Things Were Big
2006, Covered objects on Cement

 
       
     
 





On these works Richard Ducker explores Benjamin's assertion of the domestic that “…in the interior, he brings together remote locales and the memories of the past.” The home itself becomes a kind of miniature museum. As personal associations, dreams and desires are projected onto standardized, mass-produced objects, they become alive and turned into commodity fetishes, which evokes the uncanny. Through these objects, and associative materials, private stories can be suggested at.