Nicole Wassall
Mysterious Times, 2022
Seaweed or coral collected from Miami Beach after a storm with silver plated copper wire. Snail – shell water gilded with 24ct gold and carved wax body. Spiders web – white hair. White earth – plaster of Paris mounted with black velvet ribbon and secured with stainless steel screws, under glass dome with black wooden base.
48 (h) x 26 (w) x 26 (d) cm
18 7/8 (h) x 10 1/4 (w) x 10 1/4 (d) in
18 7/8 (h) x 10 1/4 (w) x 10 1/4 (d) in
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Pieces of detritus, a snail shell, black coral that washed up on a beach and white human hair are repurposed to form a new narrative. Two skeleton trees grow out...
Pieces of detritus, a snail shell, black coral that washed up on a beach and white human hair are repurposed to form a new narrative. Two skeleton trees grow out of a white earth. A hand carved wax snail with a gold shell is frozen in time as it glides between the miniature trees. A spider’s web stretches between branches in the desolate landscape; the glass dome creates an isolated ecosystem or maybe a specimen of one.
Waste, or at least things that are commonly discarded are transformed into a curious landscape. By changing the context of the elements there is a deconstruction of the scaffolding behind beliefs so as to leave space for curiosity and new narratives.
Waste, or at least things that are commonly discarded are transformed into a curious landscape. By changing the context of the elements there is a deconstruction of the scaffolding behind beliefs so as to leave space for curiosity and new narratives.