Rachel WhitereadUntitled (Twenty-Four Switches) 1998

This wall-mounted sculpture was created by casting an electrical switch box. The process required to arrive at the finished object involved several stages of casting in both positive and negative. The face of the box is a negative cast – an imprint of the face of the original box, with negatives of the twenty-four switches and eight screw heads. Its body is a positive cast, a reproduction of the original body, including an indentation at the edge of the face around the sides where the plastic plate would have separated away from the walls on being unscrewed… (read more)