Light Transference (2021)

Brick plinth (salvaged from the site of the former Tip Top bread factory, Adelaide Road, Newtown), rusted metal rods (found beside St Hilda’s Church) welded and penetrated into brick as weight-bearing structure to support lead-held window panes salvaged from Ngaio All Saints Church, fallen glass shards from pane, copper wire, epoxy, brass candle holder, National Candle (which burns every day & night and when reaching a point below the surface of holder, is replaced by a new National Candle) – this process has been filmed in hours-long segments, wax from this process of continuation outpoured onto brick plinth and through channels of mortar eventually leading the substance on to the studio floor where it has begun to mound, spider, spiderweb (which has made home on the artwork by nature and the network itself is so beautiful as not to disturb – this web exists suspended within the top right section of work), LIGHT refracted and reflected in whichever space the sculpture exists within; throwing everything into its wake tungsten and in gently wavering movement.

35 x 50 x 105 cm (brick as foundation) or, 35 x 50 x 163 cm (as stool with bent leg as foundation, as exhibited in Benji Hartfield Studio currently)

Light Transference (2021)

Brick plinth (salvaged from the site of the former Tip Top bread factory, Adelaide Road, Newtown), rusted metal rods (found beside St Hilda’s Church) welded and penetrated into brick as weight-bearing structure to support lead-held window panes salvaged from Ngaio All Saints Church, fallen glass shards from pane, copper wire, epoxy, brass candle holder, National Candle (which burns every day & night and when reaching a point below the surface of holder, is replaced by a new National Candle) – this process has been filmed in hours-long segments, wax from this process of continuation outpoured onto brick plinth and through channels of mortar eventually leading the substance on to the studio floor where it has begun to mound, spider, spiderweb (which has made home on the artwork by nature and the network itself is so beautiful as not to disturb – this web exists suspended within the top right section of work), LIGHT refracted and reflected in whichever space the sculpture exists within; throwing everything into its wake tungsten and in gently wavering movement.

35 x 50 x 105 cm (brick as foundation) or, 35 x 50 x 163 cm (as stool with bent leg as foundation, as exhibited in Benji Hartfield Studio currently)