The big C's (Competition, Capitalism, Colonization…)
Medium: New Zealand Fifty-cent coins (Flattened via New Zealand Rail), Vacuum formed acrylic - high frequency welded, Defunct National Mail boxes (Removed from sites around Auckland, returned post exhibition), Powder coated metal bracket, Wood and fittings.
Location: Window, University of Auckland
Year: 2005
The big C's (Competition, Capitalism, Colonization…)
Medium: New Zealand Fifty-cent coins (Flattened via New Zealand Rail), Vacuum formed acrylic - high frequency welded, Defunct National Mail boxes (Removed from sites around Auckland, returned post exhibition), Powder coated metal bracket, Wood and fittings.
Location: Window, University of Auckland
Year: 2005
The big C's (Competition, Capitalism, Colonization…)
Medium: New Zealand Fifty-cent coins (Flattened via New Zealand Rail), Vacuum formed acrylic - high frequency welded, Defunct National Mail boxes (Removed from sites around Auckland, returned post exhibition), Powder coated metal bracket, Wood and fittings.
Location: Window, University of Auckland
Year: 2005
The big C's (Competition, Capitalism, Colonization…)
Medium: New Zealand Fifty-cent coins (Flattened via New Zealand Rail), Vacuum formed acrylic - high frequency welded, Defunct National Mail boxes (Removed from sites around Auckland, returned post exhibition), Powder coated metal bracket, Wood and fittings.
Location: Window, University of Auckland
Year: 2005
The big C's (Competition, Capitalism, Colonization…)
Medium: New Zealand Fifty-cent coins (Flattened via New Zealand Rail), Vacuum formed acrylic - high frequency welded, Defunct National Mail boxes (Removed from sites around Auckland, returned post exhibition), Powder coated metal bracket, Wood and fittings.
Location: Window, University of Auckland
Year: 2005
The big C's (Competition, Capitalism, Colonization…)
Medium: New Zealand Fifty-cent coins (Flattened via New Zealand Rail), Vacuum formed acrylic - high frequency welded, Defunct National Mail boxes (Removed from sites around Auckland, returned post exhibition), Powder coated metal bracket, Wood and fittings.
Location: Window, University of Auckland
Year: 2005
The big C's (Competition, Capitalism, Colonization…)
Medium: New Zealand Fifty-cent coins (Flattened via New Zealand Rail), Vacuum formed acrylic - high frequency welded, Defunct National Mail boxes (Removed from sites around Auckland, returned post exhibition), Powder coated metal bracket, Wood and fittings.
Location: Window, University of Auckland
Year: 2005
The big C's (Competition, Capitalism, Colonization…)
Medium: New Zealand Fifty-cent coins (Flattened via New Zealand Rail), Vacuum formed acrylic - high frequency welded, Defunct National Mail boxes (Removed from sites around Auckland, returned post exhibition), Powder coated metal bracket, Wood and fittings.
Location: Window, University of Auckland
Year: 2005
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Post boxes, trains, small change and Chinese swordplay – from such divergent threads Auckland artist Eddie Clemens orchestrates a web of references to the underbelly of some of the big 'Cs' today – Communism, Capitalism and Colonization. Variously employing mail boxes from the defunct National Mail service, a Chinese method of sword construction and 50¢ coins flattened on railway tracks, Big Cs evokes the communication networks and cultural geographies that underwrite contemporary life. Clemens’ idiosyncratic treatment of these systems orchestrates their diverse parts into a celebration of chance marked by humour and a distinctly polyvalent Thomas Pynchon-esque logic.