2025, Cardboard, clay, wood, steel, automotive paint, plants

This artwork explores using the wrong tool for the job. Moulding, mushing, angle grinding, turning and sanding cardboard in different forms to create an outdoor plant stand, inspired by Victorian design. The aim is to see how it degrades, and how far to push the tension between structural integrity and preposterous collapse. I have planted to attract slugs. In the top bowl their favourite lupin and lettuce, but to get there they have to traverse a copper tape path and bird bath.

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Image by Kirstie Young

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