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Courtesy of Kris Tamburello for Design Miami
Courtesy of Kris Tamburello for Design Miami
Damien Wright
2:22pm 2/2/22 Mono-block, 2022
10,000 year old Ancient River Red Gum, Polypropylene
80 x 100 x 80 cm
31.5 x 39 x 31.5 in
31.5 x 39 x 31.5 in
Unique
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The block of river red gum was cut from a 10,000-year-old tree excavated from a quarry . When timber is buried for so long it is starved of oxygen and saturated with...
The block of river red gum was cut from a 10,000-year-old tree excavated from a quarry . When timber is buried for so long it is starved of oxygen and saturated with iron and silica; the oxidised material that results is part timber and part fossil. Often buried deep down for millions of years, organic materials, plants and trees can transform further into organic compounds, including crude oil. Oil, a fossil fuel, is a key ingredient in the polypropylene used to manufacture the ubiquitous, long-lasting plastic chair that Wright has dismembered and embedded in the block of wood
Mono block conceptualises ‘metamorphosis’. A polypropylene plastic chair held in 10,000-year-old Ancient Red Gum. The wood is no longer timber nor a fossil - if undisturbed for 50 million years, it becomes oil, the material required to make polypropylene. The future, both holding and consuming the past.
Mono block conceptualises ‘metamorphosis’. A polypropylene plastic chair held in 10,000-year-old Ancient Red Gum. The wood is no longer timber nor a fossil - if undisturbed for 50 million years, it becomes oil, the material required to make polypropylene. The future, both holding and consuming the past.
Exhibitions
Design Miami (Group Exhibition), Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert, Miami Beach, USA, 3 - 5 December 2024Melbourne Design Fair (Group Exhibition), Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 15 - 20 March 2022
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