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    The Contingent

    Feb 01, 2019 4 minutes
    Written by Kerry Jameson

    Shell Warrior stands defiantly upon a four-legged urn reminiscent of a Chinese bronze censor ready to burn incense – offerings to win favours from the Gods. The feathered shoulders initially purposed for an owl hold up an aqua-blue battle helmet and fix in place the yellow hooves chopped from the limbs of a forgotten donkey. Shell Warrior is an assemblage of liberated fragments which have come together through a continuing series of breakages, edits and re-arrangements until final confirmation.

    This body of work has been created through destruction which seems like a novel course of action. The result is to force

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