Not-Very-Merry-Go-Round
mixed media assemblage
800 X 800 X 800 mm
by Dale Copeland
Mike Scott, a good Taranaki photographer, made a small video of me in my studio.
It shows the Not-Very-Merry-Go-Round (and all its noises).
You can see it here.
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Like life - at first glance it's joy and merriment, spinning with music.
But the figures have the horror of jangling juxtapositions. In this dried fish head are my mother's old false teeth - the body is made of jawbones and the feet are from a doll. All smoothly joined into the figure of a smiling nightmare. Seven figures on a slowly-rotating base, with sounds which are part music box and part apparently random janglings of faint bells and chimes, rattling and clanking. One of my favourites. |
Dale's studio can be found on Surf Highway, Taranaki, New Zealand
More of her work can be seen on the Virtual TART site at www.tart.co.nz
email Dale at dale@tart.co.nz