CALL 4 : ARTIST STATEMENT

Call 4

ARTIST STATEMENT : Miniature Gallery Context

There is no greater Artist than nature.

This work is a manmade sculptural offering to the omnipotence of nature and the fragilty of human kind. Using left over left overs and found materials from a journey to The Gower Peninsular,The Traveling Gower Beast glorifies a chrome reflected kamikaze flight into other worlds through portals of light and dark. 

The work is inspired by the cycles and eclipses of the Moon as seen in the cogs and wheels of The Antikythera machine, a  mechanical device that computed the positions of the astrological signs on any given date, past or future. It was discovered in an ancient shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea and dates to approximately 250 BC. The designer/builder is not known, but because of its similarity to other mechanical devices known to have been designed by Archimedes, it is probably his work. 

The maneuverable sculpture is completely self contained and is made up of hinged parts that unfold when it has reached its destination. The inevitability of life, the possibility of death and potential for rebirth are available, for sale, in this one woman band traveling show.