CO.1 Hermés

2014

Steel, yellow copper, electronics, taxidermy

65 x 30 x 30 cm

Electro mechanical display case

Commission, build for Hermès Paris.

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

Photo’s by Lieke Frielink, Studio Fixie

Film by Bram Juist