COUPLES


THEK AND SIVA

THEK


Thek's Birthday: Nature Table, mixed media, 400 x 780 x 260mm,, Small Sculpture Award Finalist Exhibition, Waiheke Community Art Gallery, Waiheke Island, 2011







SIVA

Siva's Friends: Virtual Table, mixed media, 400 x 750 x 260mm



Thek and Siva look at the properties of analogue and digital storage.

Thek's Birthday: Nature Table is about analogue storage and the volatility and vulnerability of matter and the physical world. The fox sitting on the edge has been broken and reconstituted.

 
Siva's Friends: Virtual Table looks at digital storage and displays virtual items. Models of digital information particles are lined up behind a slumped figure sitting on the edge of the table. The figure is a malformed, infant Kali who represents time and change. The shadow of this table is white as there is no matter to cast a shadow in the digital world.

The leading figures of both my tables are slumped and miserable because of the old Cartesian separation of the body and the mind. 


OTHER COUPLES

COUPLE #23
Christopher Moore Gallery, Wellington, 2004






unglazed detail

COUPLE #1

COUPLE #2