Work Boxes 1999

Australian poet Kenneth Slessor’s “snippings of idiot celluloid” create an image of life glimpsed through the windows of a moving train. These same "snippings" can be read in the series Work Boxes. Each is a moment in time; good, bad or seemingly indifferent. Each can illustrate a fragment in the sum of the parts that create a life experience.

Indigestion 1999
Wood, metal, plastic
With box closed; 17 cm(H) x 15 cm(W) x 15 cm(D)
Photo credit; I Hobbs

Distillation 1999
Metal, plastic
15 cm (H) x 25 cm(W) x 13 cm(D)
Photo credit; I Hobbs


 

Triptych 1999
Metal, plastic, bud lights, photographs
With box closed;11 cm(H) x 18 cm(W) x 3 cm(D)
Photo credit; I Hobbs

Flying observer 1999
Wood, metal, plastic
19 cm(H) x 30 cm(W) x 11 cm(D)
Photo credit; I Hobbs


 

The lesson is nonsense, but given great importance 1999
Wood, metal, plastic, glass
With box closed; 17.5 cm(H) x 18 cm(W) x 13 cm(D)
Photo credit; I Hobbs

Family portrait 1999
Metal, plastic, paper, thread
With box closed; 11 cm(H) x 34 cm(W) x 10.5 cm(D)
Photo credit; I Hobbs