About This Project

CO.1 Hermés

2014

Steel, yellow copper, electronics, taxidermy

65 x 30 x 30 cm

Electro mechanical display case

 

 

Commision build for Hermès Paris.

By moving the handcrank the Morpho Menelaus is being “re-animated”, flying above time. The sensoroperated electromotor can be mechanically overruled by the handcrank so that the beholder can operate the entire work and follow it’s mechanical movement…

 

Photo’s by Lieke Frielink, Studio Fixie

Film by Bram Juist