Oblivion Sandwich series
Oblivion Sandwiches comprise a few thousand squashed bottle caps from streets all over the world nailed to wood.
Discarded flattened bottle-caps are anonymously worn down to become smooth-edged as if tumbled rocks.
The ubiquitous pre-flattened caps are lost symbols of convenience.
These once useful objects are tossed aside, crushed and modified; eventually found and admired.
Oblivion Sandwiches' painted substrate deliberately studded with painted spots corresponds to the mind with calculated, measured activity.
This design element is eclipsed by a veneer of 'unconscious process' rendered in bottle caps and secured to the foundation with painted nails.
A sandwich of highly intentional front and back layers captures the unintentional and forgotten interior.
A film of popular amnesia is pierced and re-engaged with sentient principles of internal/external experience.
Each different silhouette characterises a state of mind i.e the intersecting lemniscates of Ouroboros symbolise the infinite nature of thought. The Circular Whole (private collection Melbourne) expresses completeness, simplicity, eternity. The rectangular Door (private collection London) depicts travel from one state of mind to another and the stacked panels of Staircase (private collection Auckland) represents the climbing/descending nature of our lives' paths. Drop is a single idea falling into an endless ocean of pondering, entertaining notions of disorientation and a tear of simultaneous joy and sadness. The other way up however Drop becomes the iconic symbol - You are Here, a classic motif to give the viewer a sense of location, place and intention. Eclipse illustrates that the unseen influences the seen. Shared views, perspectives collectively give us a picture of the world and what we cannot see is as important as that of which we are aware.
Discarded flattened bottle-caps are anonymously worn down to become smooth-edged as if tumbled rocks.
The ubiquitous pre-flattened caps are lost symbols of convenience.
These once useful objects are tossed aside, crushed and modified; eventually found and admired.
Oblivion Sandwiches' painted substrate deliberately studded with painted spots corresponds to the mind with calculated, measured activity.
This design element is eclipsed by a veneer of 'unconscious process' rendered in bottle caps and secured to the foundation with painted nails.
A sandwich of highly intentional front and back layers captures the unintentional and forgotten interior.
A film of popular amnesia is pierced and re-engaged with sentient principles of internal/external experience.
Each different silhouette characterises a state of mind i.e the intersecting lemniscates of Ouroboros symbolise the infinite nature of thought. The Circular Whole (private collection Melbourne) expresses completeness, simplicity, eternity. The rectangular Door (private collection London) depicts travel from one state of mind to another and the stacked panels of Staircase (private collection Auckland) represents the climbing/descending nature of our lives' paths. Drop is a single idea falling into an endless ocean of pondering, entertaining notions of disorientation and a tear of simultaneous joy and sadness. The other way up however Drop becomes the iconic symbol - You are Here, a classic motif to give the viewer a sense of location, place and intention. Eclipse illustrates that the unseen influences the seen. Shared views, perspectives collectively give us a picture of the world and what we cannot see is as important as that of which we are aware.
Drop
Drop - Bottle caps, ply, nails, acrylic NZD $17000 €8360
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Ouroboros
Ouroboros - Bottle caps, ply, nails, acrylic NZD$20000 €9888
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Eclipse
Eclipse - Bottle caps, ply, nails, acrylic NZD$8500 €4200
