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DESTRUCTION AND HARMONY SERIES

They are symbols, representations and reflections of the surrounding world. Each sculpture is characterised by suggestive dynamic  energy, rhythmic motions and minimal colours.

Power relations are inherent in everyday situations and humans struggle to free themselves from the constraints of an increasingly over complex world. The more we try to simplify, the more complicated things become.

We decided to use recycle discarded drain covers, pvc pipes etc because this series also deals with man's place in this delicate equation as well as the need for mankind to assume a greater degree of responsibility for his actions, both positive and negative.

We invite interested collectors to contact us for more information on these sculptures.

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Achievement

Title : Achievement
Dimension : L 40 cm x W 27 cm x H 41cm
Material : Ropes, tiles, wood
Meaning : Harnessing nature, imitating nature. Cloning, the battle to be dominance over nature. What is nature, what is natural. Habitats are lost everyday and replaced by luxuries replicated the 'natural life' but a cleaner more orderly version of human life. Loss of touch with nature. A journey of life.

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 Black Death

Title : Black Death
Dimension : L 26 cm x W 15 cm x H 71cm
Material : Mixed Media, metal & plaster
Meaning : Destruction has no permanent death. Even in the process of creation, something is being destroyed. In so many encounters with technology, whose birth has been much heralded, people have sought convenience and self righteousness over understanding and compassion for fellow beings and other organisms. No matter how we try to stave off death of our body, our cells through technology, some thing some how in some way dies.

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 Burning Ball

Title : Burning Ball
Dimension : L 20cm, H 42cm
Material : Silver Wire & Crystal
Meaning : The core of the earth, it's essence is burning hot, vibrant and dynamic, The earth's energy both provides and consumes. Concurrently this sculpture also symbolises the human mind : our minds are always active, burning with new ideas and old thoughts pressed with fresh memories and crushed with the
  old experiences. This process is in a constant state of flux forever contained within a constant vessel, the human body to which the essential form remains. All these thoughts and energies remain with us to our deaths.

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 Convenience

Title : Convenience
Dimension : L 14 cm x W 10 cm x H 37cm
Material : PVC pipes, plastics.
Meaning : Our lives are coated with plastic. We seem blind to the cold hard consequences of the interesting inventions we use to improve our lives. We crave permanence of beauty. But beauty is organic like the earth, ever changing, crumbling disintegrating. From winter there is always spring. Humans ought not be fools isolating ourselves from nature and seek comfort in a cheap, cold, inelastic imitation of nature.

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 Define It

Title : Define It
Dimension : L 45 cm x W 38 cm x H 72cm
Material : Plaster, cement, mild steel, wires, rod and bricks.
Meaning : War zones are created by man. They can occur between nations, between races, between persons and internally one self and one's environment. What is the competition for? Is it for the benefit and greater good of mankind or is it schadenfreude : pleasure from the misfortune of others? More often than not people create and live in their cocoon of self destruction rather than their own happiness. We limit ourselves and create positive and negative distinctions with barbed spaces between people.

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 Dream of Clouds

Title : Dream of Clouds
Dimension : L 41cm, H 72cm
Material : Metal, Plaster, marbles, glitter
Meaning :  Mother Earth moves and weaves her spell  on us earthlings. Where do we find ourselves? our ideas of primacy, of the individual choice over pre-ordained destinies; contact and conflict with the material world and natural world.

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 Execution

Title : Execution
Dimension : L 20 cm x W 10 cm x H 34cm
Material : Metal and wood
Meaning : Small yet effective, a blade has revolutionised human life as we know it.
  From war to harvesting great tracts of land. Armies and menacing modern corporate strategies are all embodied in a blade. A clean slicing of nature's landscape, large swaths of nature's defense has been scalped off with man made creations like that of genetically modified food. Surgical blades, fan blades, propeller blades – they are all tools to profit from nature.

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 Green Clouds

Title : Green Clouds
Dimension : L 31cm, H 91cm
Material : Plaster, wood
Meaning : The dreamscape of nature on earth that existed and give rise to our imagination. The lightness of earth and delicate touch of nature in shaping the face and depths of earth, beautifying and scarring it's face. Our very existence as creatures has been moulded by nature.

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Happy Ending

Title : Happy Ending
Dimension : L 21 cm x W 18 cm x H 70cm
Material : Metal, stone and wood base
Meaning: Understanding the inner wavelength and energy of nature allows us to synchronise our body systems and evolve into more finely tuned persons. The Dance of Evolution is one of the great mysteries of nature. Why? How? Is it by will that we evolve or by nature's intention? What drives the rhythm of evolution?

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I ride on your back but you can't ride mine

Title : I ride on your back but you can't ride mine
Dimension : L 41 cm x W 27 cm x H 71cm
Material : Metal & motar
Meaning : We are all animals yet some how we have developed it into an art form. From dependence to co-operation to one-upmanship Where did we find the inspiration for our instability and our need to exercise authority?

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Intelligent Life Decaying

Title : Intelligent Life Decaying
Dimension : L 39.5 cm x W 28 cm x H 41cm
Material : Copper, Wood, Plaster
Meaning : People are becoming individualistic and spoiling their own social life, family, mentally when they colour their life with “Sour grape” thoughts. The universe is indifferent to what we do to ourselves. Or is it? When we look at nature, we do not want to see barrenness & decay – we want lush greenery, we are inherently drawn to water; likewise we only want cheerful people swimming around us and we secretly expect it of people but yet we ourselves refuse to be cheerful on our own accord.

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Life's a Bitch

Title : Life's a Bitch
Dimension : L 75 cm x W 12.5 cm x H 12cm
Material : Wood
Meaning : It is not easy to find happiness, to be happiness personified. We are all condemned to die since our creation in our mother's wombs. Many obstacles lay strewn across the way. Despite the uncertainty and futility of life we must develop the integrity to improve, to have the will to survive different drawers of life.

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 Man Peacock

Title : Man Peacock
Dimension : L 39 cm x W 31 cm x H 81 cm
Material : Metal, wood, plaster
Meaning : Man constructs fantasies of himself. From a simple being, Man has managed to complicate life and his outlook in life with societal idealisms & customs. Simplifying life seems impossible because our common sense is clouded by turmoil. Man seems to worship himself as being one of the most adaptable creatures in nature. Are we nature's best, most intelligent creation?

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Mr President

Title : Mr President
Dimension : L 40 cm x W 24 cm x H 52cm
Material : Measuring tape, alabaster, cement, metal, wood.
Meaning : Measurement of self worth, how do other people measure up? Capabilities and abilities. Decisions are made by scholars, most sitting in an office with no contact to the real world, not experiencing the problems of millions. Those decisions that affect the masses are rolled out to
  people like toilet paper and flushed down the population's throat, after which not a thought more is spared to the matter. One wonders if top brasses have their hearts and minds connected to the very people who put them in positions of power.

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My Summertime

Title : My Summertime
Dimension : L 41 cm x W 20 cm x H 57cm
Material : Mixed Media collage
Meaning : Summer escapades and fond childhood memories almost always involves nature. A drawer full of memories of the beckoning great outdoors. In our concocted dreams no matter how old we are, we are our most comfortable and youthful when we run uninhibited into the arms of nature, the nature of our dreams.

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Orbit

Title : Orbit
Dimension : L 37 cm x H 91cm
Material : Metal, spray paint.
Meaning : Decisions made from a meeting under one roof. Message passed down from the vertical hierarchy: one head to several heads are usually distorted. The real meat of discussion is always behind colourful smoke screens, so much spin-doctoring goes on without the masses ever knowing it.

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Seismic

Title : Seismic
Dimension : L 22cm, H 61cm
Material : Cement, pebbles, copper, stainless steel & glass
Meaning : The changing form of the earth, it's energy where does it come from? The build up of this energy, both constructive and destructive. Will this energy ever run out? Will we expire should the energy expire? Will mankind and all species unite for the embrace of earth?

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Sun & Moon Salsa

Title : Sun & Moon Salsa
Dimension : L 40.5cm x W 20.5 cm x H 39 cm
Material : 2 snooker balls, plaster and wood & copper pipes
Meaning: Dance of the gravitational forces between the sun and moon. It is the combination of the energy of both gives rise to the some of the most enigmatic forces of
  nature : tides, climate changes, warmth, life cycles. The transition of night and day are beyond our control but we can enjoy the majestic scenes they provide.

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Terror

Title : Terror
Dimension : L 42 cm x W 30 cm x H 92cm
Material : PVC pipes, baseball bat, hose and wood.
Meaning : Security & surveillance in the country happens when the climate of fear is prevalent. What do we fear? After all this time, civilisations have come and gone, oasis have turned to desert; desert to arable land, with so much done to improve and advance lives. Why do we still have basic fears, instincts & needs in us? Why do certain situations bring out the animal in us, should we not be by now, a more refined human being?

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Undersea Death Ground

Title : Undersea Death Ground
Dimension : L 37 cm x W 19 cm x H 41cm
Material : Mixed Media
Meaning : Very simply, we pressure nature to outperform our expectations. We expect miracles of nature. If it doesn't, we manipulate nature's cycles to our benefit for the short term without a thought to the other dependants in the ecological chain or for the long term consequences.

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What's Going On?

Title : What's Going On?
Dimension : L 46 cm x W 10 cm x H 16cm
Material : Wood & String
Meaning : Can 2 heads talking over a cup of tea solve a problem or exacerbate it? Talk is cheap, actions are dirty. At the end of the day, no hard feelings. It's just business. Survival is now a business. A decision is often made in spirit of 'to my convenience' rather than 'prevention now is better & cheaper than cure'. How did problems get so vast with such far-reaching consequences?

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