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EXOSKELETON POD

ARTISTS STATEMENT

Exoskeleton Pod is a steel plate construction, which creates a minimum architecture for one or two bodies. It speculates about habitation within a public zone or park. As such it is site specific to public space in general, rather than Bondi in particular. Hence the relocation of the work to another public space, such as Campbelltown Gallery, is not a problem. At Bondi it turned its back on the water in order to protect its opening from the elements.

The work is not a literal attempt to create architecture but more a body/building, which occupies itself. It forms a prosthesis, which questions the insect-like quality of the human condition and interrogates architecture.

It occupies a zone between sculpture and architecture, between architecture and furniture and between architecture and the body.

The steel shell shapes owe their morphologies to the bodies of helicopters and heavy machinery. Access to the readymade is completed during the maquette stage. The fabrication process then attempts to reproduce these new combinations of existing shapes at different scales. The result creates unfamiliar configurations of seemingly familiar shapes.