JILL TOWNSLEY

Three spoons are bound together with a rubber band to form a unit, like a tripod. Each unit tessellates with others to build a pyramidal structure. Over time, the rubber in the band perishes and the unit collapses. The whole sculpture is then undermined and experiences a random decay. The materials return back to plastic spoons and rubber bands.

This process was filmed with time-lapse photography programmed to take one frame every twenty minutes, day and night for 4 months, a video of this decay is exhibited next to the sculpture.

Spoons was first exhibited in Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary in the inaugural exhibition at the new Museum of Arts & Design, New York: http://madmuseum.org/press/releases/second-lives-remixing-ordinary