I frequent antique shops, a place where hoards of devices and objects indefinitely call home. While discarded or cast off they fill a peculiar place in the world as they wait to be resold. When I find them on vendors’ shelves, they beg to be touched. The sensations these objects evoke have become a new sensory experience which is both nostalgic and unfamiliar.
In the Incurious series the viewer is invited to interact with the objects and imagine the function these peculiar devices might have. Made from repurposed pewter serviceware, they reference and transform their original function. I envision my work in the domestic world, redefining their role in a vaguely familiar way. The interaction with these devices produces contemporary and nostalgic sensations, similar to my experience at antique shops.
![Dormant](http://lucyderickson.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/gallery-247.jpg)
Repurposed pewter | 4 x 4 x 5 inches | 2013
Photo credit, Catherine Simmons
![Dormant](http://lucyderickson.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/gallery-249.jpg)
Repurposed pewter | 4 x 4 x 5 inches | 2013
Photo credit, Catherine Simmons
![Dormant](http://lucyderickson.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/gallery-253.jpg)
Repurposed pewter | 4 x 4 x 5 inches | 2013
Photo credit, Catherine Simmons
![Incurious Series: Efficient](http://lucyderickson.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/DSC009331.jpg)
Repurposed pewter, plastic button | 4 x 4 x 5 inches | 2013
![Incurious Series: Efficient](http://lucyderickson.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/DSC009321.jpg)
Repurposed pewter, plastic button | 4 x 4 x 5 inches | 2013
![Other](http://lucyderickson.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/DSC00951.jpg)
Repurposed pewter | 4 x 4 x 6 inches | 2013
![Other](http://lucyderickson.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/DSC00939.jpg)
Repurposed pewter | 4 x 4 x 6 inches | 2013
![Incurious Series: Untitled](http://lucyderickson.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/DSC00870.jpg)
Repurposed pewter | 8 x 8 x 8 inches | 2013
![Incurious Series: Untitled (detail)](http://lucyderickson.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/DSC008671.jpg)
Repurposed pewter | 8 x 8 x 8 inches | 2013
![Incurious Series: Untitled](http://lucyderickson.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/DSC008751.jpg)
Repurposed pewter | 8 x 8 x 8 inches | 2013
![Incurious Series: Untitled (detail)](http://lucyderickson.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/DSC009151.jpg)
Repurposed pewter | 8 x 8 x 8 inches | 2013
![Incurious Series: Please Push](http://lucyderickson.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/DSC021141.jpg)
Repurposed pewter, trumpet button parts | 4 x 4 x 10 inches | 2013
![Incurious Series: Please Push](http://lucyderickson.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/DSC020981.jpg)
Repurposed pewter, trumpet button parts | 4 x 4 x 10 inches | 2013
![Incurious Series: P is for Poke (exterior view)](http://lucyderickson.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/P_is_For_Poke21.jpg)
Repurposed pewter, egg beater, foam ear plug, brass, steel, wall
66 x 12 x 45 inches including wall thickness | 2014
![Incurious Series: P is for Poke (Interior view)](http://lucyderickson.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/P-_is_for_Poke31.jpg)
Repurposed pewter, egg beater, foam ear plug, brass, steel, wall
66 x 12 x 45 inches including wall thickness | 2014
![Incurious Series: P is for Poke (Interior view)](http://lucyderickson.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/P-_is_for_Poke11.jpg)
Repurposed pewter, egg beater, foam ear plug, brass, steel, wall
66 x 12 x 45 inches including wall thickness | 2014
![](http://lucyderickson.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/DSC01010-1.jpg)
Repurposed pewter, silicon rubber, latex tubing, plastic cord | 36 x 60 x 8 inches | 2013
![](http://lucyderickson.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/DSC01014.jpg)
Repurposed pewter, silicon rubber, latex tubing, plastic cord | 36 x 60 x 8 inches | 2013
![](http://lucyderickson.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/DSC01019.jpg)
Repurposed pewter, silicon rubber, latex tubing, plastic cord | 36 x 60 x 8 inches | 2013
![Incurious Series: Wall Resuscitator (detail)](http://lucyderickson.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/DSC009971.jpg)
Repurposed pewter, silicon rubber, latex tubing, plastic cord | 36 x 60 x 8 inches | 2013
![](http://lucyderickson.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/DSC01024.jpg)
Repurposed pewter, silicon rubber, latex tubing, plastic cord |36 x 60 x 8 inches | 2013
![Incurious Series: Wall Resuscitator (detail)](http://lucyderickson.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/DSC010031.jpg)
Repurposed pewter, silicon rubber, latex tubing, plastic cord | 36 x 60 x 8 inches | 2013