Special delivery

Special Delivery, 2009

the decision to construct the pallet from cardboard pushes this work to a stronger position for communication of my ideas. Now the entire work is a made thing. Its a mimik of the real but in a situation which would never occur. The materials used are straight from manufacture, so fresh infact that they lack certain qualities of the "real world" and this seems to reinforce the falseness of the situation I've put them in. As packaging materials they hold a reference to protection and insulation of items during travel, this assosiation makes sense of being part of this delivery scenario. Although when considered at greater length there are many floors to what we have been presented; cardboard would not survive in the role of a pallet and shows no signs of going through this role. Although there is a product being delivered on the pallet it is made from a material used to protect the product. Again with the iceberg, it has a history of making epic journeys but the idea of it being delivered in this manner is implausable.