Emblem

 

Glass, bronze, sand; 12 units; dimensions variable

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'Emblem' investigates the use of multiples in the public domain by establishing tension between the natural world and the artificial. 

Totemic and isolated, these 10 units emulate a series of native Wollemi Pine cuttings disconnected from their original environment and immortalized in bronze.

'Emblem' makes reference to the duality of the species being both, a protected living fossil and a propagated, commercialized domestic product. The work creates a narrative where the complexities of globalization, consumption, mass production, cloning, manipulation and preservation co-exist.

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Arnold Bloch Leibler, Collins Street, Melbourne

Toorak Village Sculpture Prize

2008