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Released spirits

By  David Kemp 2006

David Kemp

Dimensions
300cm x 300cm x 100cm

Courtesy of
Tate Gallery, St Ives

One of a series of masks, skulls, skullboards , artifacts, icons and god-dollies, made from found objects and presented as 'museum pieces'. Relics of a post-technological society. These masks were found on a beach, and have also been used by actors in outdoor theatre presentations on the themes of waste and pollution of the ocean environment.
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Automatic absolution dispenser

cross-wired

Wooden whaler

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