Chrysalid
2016
NZ Contemporary Arts Award Finalist
Media: Piano mechanics, flax paper, plastic tubing, sculptured wood, paint, porcelain paper clay,
Dimensions (H×W×D): 136×130×30
This project comes from the transformation of mechanical parts of a piano, a moving skeletal structure, fixed into a rigidity with carved wood, plastic tubes, flax paper and porcelain representing the final state of metamorphosis. The mutation of mechanical and organic, manmade and biological, a new hybrid of life.
Pictured on display at Waikato Museum
http://waikatomuseum.co.nz/exhibitions-and-events/view/2145882911/2017-national-contemporary-art-award