Hung Out To Fry

Also, I MC’d a protest concert held in Hyde Park regarding the State Governments plans to eradicate the totems from the Botanic Gardens. They were then viewed as pests of plague proportions and were to be blasted with industrial noise through load speakers.

Of course the biggest killer in the urban centres are power lines. Frequently the creatures zap themselves whilst clawing for the second power line and immediately fry themselves in a puff of smoke as upwards of 69,000 volts pass through their small bodies.

I was on my morning walk in Redfern, January 2017 when I came across this amazing specimen who’d zapped himself the night prior. He’s fallen cleanly to the road below and remained in a peaceful sleeping position on his back.

I immediately envisioned this opportunity. To cast him and immortalise him in bronze, as the Government does with famed Colonials. So I collected him in a fruit box and promptly placed him in the freezer. I then tracked down one of Sydney’s leading mould makers to assist me in the incredibly delicate process of moulding the torso. After some weeks and much trial & error and abhorrent odours… we arrived at the mould worthy of pursuing the first suite of moulded resin pieces.

The quality of the mould has also enabled the production of this first edition bronze piece and the beginning of a limited editions of-
7 x BRONZE
7 X GOLD (PLATED)
7 X NICKEL (PLATED)
7 X HAND PAINTED