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Review: Let's All Drown Ourselves Tonight

I finally got around to see the exhibition, "Let's All Drown Ourselves Tonight" at Wug Laku's Studio and Garage this afternoon. The exhibition presents a diverse selection of sculptural works by Dominic Sansone, with works in cast bronze, iron, wood and ceramics. The works in the show offer little in the way of a direct line of narrative for the viewer but this was not to its detriment. I found myself walking around the space looking at individual pieces a number of times, occasionally glancing at the titles to for a clue to the intention of the piece by the artist. The pieces I was most intrigued by were a series of cast bronze and iron protective masks and goggles, from what appeared to be a bronze welding helmet to an iron child's gas mask. These works had a mystery and foreboding about them that actually continued to resonate in all of the works in the show.