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Hairy eye balls
2011

'Hairy Eye Balls' are the earliest 'creaptures' - creature-sculptures - that attempt to subvert the familiar through the experience of ‘the uncanny’ (Freud, Das Unheimliche, 1919). With the simple combination of glass and fur, these aim to provoke tensions between the threatening and the safe, the animate and the inanimate, while remaining on the threshold between the familiar and the unfamiliar. Fur, unconventional because of its suspended condition between life and death, simultaneously repulses and seduces. Pressed behind glass, it suggests a potential tactile experience one can only undergo by ‘touching with the eyes’.

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Hairy Eye Ball I, 2011, 30cm diameter, recycled fur, pillow filler inside handblown glass
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Armadillo, 2011, 30x15x15cm
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Hairy Eye Ball II, 2011, 35cm diameter
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Hairy Bald Head, 2011, 20x10x10cm
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Peeking Knee, 2011, 10x10x5cm
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Mother HEB, 2012, 70cm diameter
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Baby Hairy Eye Ball, 2012, 10cm diameter
Hairy Eye Ball I, 2011, 30cm diameter, recycled fur, pillow filler inside handblown glass rel=
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Armadillo, 2011, 30x15x15cm rel=
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Hairy Eye Ball II, 2011, 35cm diameter rel=
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Hairy Bald Head, 2011, 20x10x10cm rel=
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Peeking Knee, 2011, 10x10x5cm rel=
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Mother HEB, 2012, 70cm diameter rel=
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Baby Hairy Eye Ball, 2012, 10cm diameter rel=
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Baby Hairy Eye Ball, 2012, 10cm diameter rel=
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