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VISCERA
Installation, dimensions variable. Mixed media. 2007

        
Viscera, a collection of small sculptures, was displayed in a box-pew (below) as part of oneinamillion changes (link opens in new window) in August 2007. Details of individual sculptures are shown below.
    
    Overview of installation Viscera 2007, in displayed in box pew.      
 
The thumbnails below are all links to larger images.  
 
Viscera goldfinch and blue tit (waxed) coiled with copper wire. 2007   Black box with crow feathers and text on top of box :'I am one note'; 'temptation'; 'my life is opening out before you'. Black sample envelope with text 'I want to be asleep. Ok but isn't what you really want..no it's been too long...' 2007 Dessicated fledgling on velvet cushion with cut out section showing white feathers that bird is placed on. Text reads 'feather my nest'
Bird's nest on letters. Nest has a whole in base and the word 'vulnerable' can be read through on the letter below it. 3 nests filled with beeswax and image of owl on torso. Detail of wax filled nest with embedded text reading 'my attachment is ambivalent'
        Photograph of artist's torso with dead owl.  
cardboard with text 'under your silent wings' and owl's blood stains. Jar containing artist's blood. black velvet cushion with text/poem and 2 crows feathers. Text begins 'feelings of inadequacy go straight to my heart, I see only my lack in every part...'

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