Second Wind
Furniture made from the old Melbourne Town Hall organ
Craft Victoria
16 October 10 November 2001
works by Craig Dorrington, Michelle Harris, Hamish Hill, Abe McCarthy,
Maggie Mei-kei Hui, Stephen Oram, Bryan Poynton, Dr Alex Selenitsch,
Tony Stuart, Anthony Windust.
Artist's Statement
This piece adapts one of the smaller wind-chests used to distribute
air to standing pipes. Turned through 90 degrees, with some cleaning
out, cutting and minor additions, it has become a bathroom cabinet.
Size, proportion and the suggestions of lower body, torso and head,
with protruding organs, give it an anthropomorphic touch - a fragment
of the large organ suggesting a smaller body...
We needed a cabinet in our bathroom; I gazed at the wind-chest for
about a year, and recently, the need for a cabinet and the availability
of the wind-chest co-incided. The piece is designed to stand on
the floor and be fixed to the wall, next to the toilet, just behind
a folding door.
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Dr Alex Selenitsch
Bathroom Tower
2001
found wind-chest with alterations,
204 x 48 x 19cms,
ash, box, red pine, tulip tree, sugar pine, sundry fittings.
photographs by Terence Bogue
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Updated: 14 December 2006