14 April 2012, Muffin Displayed on iron gate at Holy Trinity Church in Philip Lane, N15 Assisted ready-made by Bagsy (b.1919) Tottenham Cultural Quarter 2012

This important new work by local sculptor Bagsy continues the astonishing late flowering begun in his previous piece - "Empty Carton with Drinking Straw & Scrunched-up Wrapper"

With a nod both to minimalism and un-sustainable-art Bagsy has further deepened our understanding of edible found objects as sculpture. The muffin/cupcake is a symbol both of mass production and of bread as the staff of life. Acknowledging at the same time our own primitive origins as hunter/gatherers.

It's clear that in no sense is the arrangement of the diminutive yeasty pudding anything but purposeful. It is on the lock but not of the lock. Clearly encircled by the chain; it is not itself enchained. So, like the denizens of Plato's cave, it is existentially free ; but cannot move of its own volition.

Thanks and Acknowledgements "Gate With Muffin" is part of a series of artworks commissioned to celebrate the Virtual Unreality Cultural Quarter in Tottenham Green. Gifted to the people of Tottenham as a temporary outdoor sculpture.

Co-producers : ● Haringey Virtual Unreality Planning & Regeneration Department ● Institute for Wasting Oodles of Other People's Money ● Trustees of the Bagsy Foundation

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