CANOPTIC JAR SALAD SPINNER
He got up and walked out to the road. The black shape of it running from dark to dark. Then the distant low rumble. Not thunder. You could feel it under your feet. A sound without cognate and so without description. Something imponderable shifting out there in the dark. The earth itself contracting with the cold. It did not come again. What time of year? What age the child? He walked out into the road and stood. The silence. The salitter drying from the earth. The mudstained shapes of flooded cities burned to the waterline. At a crossroads a ground set with dolmen stones where the spoken bones of oracles lay moldering. No sound but the wind. What will you say? A living man spoke these lines? He sharpened a quill with his small pen knife to scribe these things in sloe or lampblack? At some reckonable and entabled moment? He is coming to steal my eyes. To seal my mouth with dirt.
That is a quote from The Road by Cormac McCarthy and those words directly influenced the making of the Canoptic Jar Salad Spinner. Fabricated from layers of laser cut transparent acrylic held together with brass pins, containing four types of woodland crap: moss, fungi, leaf and soil, and then sunk in a block of plaster, to fuse the mechanism together. I had not noticed that, while collecting the woodland crap from the woods up the road, I had inadvertently collected a flock of slugs. I left the woodland crap in a carrier bag in my studio, only to discover, late one night, that there were slugs everywhere. On the desk. On the walls. On the floor. On the sculptures. In my eyes. In my mouth.
This render shows the plan for the Canoptic Jar Salad Spinner, created in Cinema 4d.