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Monday, March 14, 2011

Installation at the Hunt Museum

As part of the Contemporary Art in the Public Realm module we have been set a task by the Hunt Museum to build models of the artifacts on display with an electronic theme. The idea is to reconstruct the pieces using scrap electronics. Today we visited the museum to view the pieces on display. There were a few items that caught my attention. First a spiked neck brace and helmet:


Also, there was a spectacle brooch from the Iron Age and a bronze dodecahedron from Roman times (1 - 4 AD):


The dodecahedron, in particular, I am intrigued by as I have long had an interest in sacred geometry. I would really like to choose this piece for the project. Some pictures of the dodecahedron:



There were other items that I thought would be interesting to work on too, including a small chest, a wooden cross, a neck ring and a small comb:





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