09/2020
Explosion Urn, Footed
120 meters, 7mm cotton rope
350 x 270 mm
Explosion Urn, Footed
120 meters, 7mm cotton rope
350 x 270 mm
This is an adventure into constructing larger vessels. Here I am trying to work with the rope to the point the material becomes an agent - so I have to work and respond to gravity and rope tension.
This particular shape is a response to nuclear testing during the 1960s in the Pacific. My great uncle was stationed at sea as a passive scientist/ protest collecting environmental data. This vessel contains invisible particulates.
Second image - as exhibited at the Tuesday Club during Art Week 2020, Auckland.
While making these soft vessels I adhere to a series of rules; one being that the form must take shape in one direction as one continuous line. No chemical bonds, only friction is used to transform the rope into an object.
This particular shape is a response to nuclear testing during the 1960s in the Pacific. My great uncle was stationed at sea as a passive scientist/ protest collecting environmental data. This vessel contains invisible particulates.
Second image - as exhibited at the Tuesday Club during Art Week 2020, Auckland.
While making these soft vessels I adhere to a series of rules; one being that the form must take shape in one direction as one continuous line. No chemical bonds, only friction is used to transform the rope into an object.