Untitled (DAMN)
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| Untitled (Damn), mixed media, 2009 |
(Damn) is a parody of a hydrolic dam. Dams are symbols of industrial might, and this one is made out of underwear material. It is floppy and collapses under the least pressure. This work is inspired by Robert Smithson's satirical portrait of industrial might in The Monuments of Passaic, 1967.
KALI
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| KALI, cardboard packaging waste and hand stitched muslin, 2010 |
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| KALI 2011 |
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| LAMINATED KALI 2010 |
Once upon a time KALI was the goddess of life and death, now she is packaging. She holds new born products in her sheathed arms. Once the product is consumed she is chucked out.
WASTE PRODUCTS
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| before installation |
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| in the gallery waiting to be suspended |
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| installation view |
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installation view
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WASTE PRODUCTS, in the Changing Rooms installation at CEAC Gallery, Waitakere City, 2007
A new product is born in the glare of Taste and Technology. Once the gaze of these twin tantrums is averted the new product is immediately old, its life is slammed between the bookends of the beginning and the end. Lying beside the crumpled idea of the new is its packaging, masses of it.
Waste is the name that waits for everything that leaves the factory floor, door, pipes and chimneys, whether it leaves as the star product, its packaging or the industrial amniotic fluid it was formed in.
These sculptures are made out of discarded materials. By configuring the discarded materials into a product, the waste is drawn back up the disposal tract of consumption.
The sculptures are wrapped to make them stable, so that they don’t change, deteriorate or collapse. This stability exempts them from the cycle of decay and regeneration. The synthetic stuff they’re made of supports this stable state. They are sequestered, writhing on the ceiling, under their own system of organisation that is outside our consumptive chain of cause and effect.
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| Monument 1 |
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| Monument 2 |
INVECTIVE
Invective is modelled on Vitaly Komar and Alexandr Melamid's critique of communist rhetoric. The opened containers carry the rhetoric of mass media on their surface. The rhetoric forms a ceaseless stream of invective.
There are masses of these and they are all pen and felt tip on packaging waste, 2007-08.
There are masses of these and they are all pen and felt tip on packaging waste, 2007-08.
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| Invective #10 |
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| Invective #10 other side |
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| Invective #23 |
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| Three Bags of Invective |
