Same Name Confusion - ESP (Telepathy)

Chalk written on the first-edition cover face of C. A. Cotton’s Geomorphology of New Zealand Part I. – Systematic (1922) gifted to the artist by Flynn William, with one photograph superimposed; a culmination of ideas and works as response to the song. Included in the photograph is the sculpture ESP Monolithic Wicket made of pine timbers, plexiglass, rusted roofing iron, roofing screws, nails, all the lyric sheets to ESP (Telepathy) painted and performed with Same Name Confusion at 121 Festival adhered to the verso by Holdfast HEAVY DUTY PARCEL TAPE, white interior/exterior paint and light sources (220 x 120 x 26cm) employed as a cricket wicket at the end of the cricket strip which is informed by white interior/exterior paint on mown grass by a Masport Briggs & Statton 725EX Series lawnmower from Benji Hartfield Studio. The cricketer is wearing a Medium Ralph Lauren Polo Cricket Sweater made in China 100% COTTON HAND KNIT from SaveMart Whanganui, along with Gray-Nicolls Excalibur 500 batting pads borrowed from 7-year-old Johnny (the cricketer’s next-door neighbour) along with Johnny’s BAIFA Best Quality red cricket bat. Other forms include a caravan and the artist’s 1999 Rover 416 Cabriolet, underneath two pohutukawas.

May-June 2020

Same Name Confusion - ESP (Telepathy)

Chalk written on the first-edition cover face of C. A. Cotton’s Geomorphology of New Zealand Part I. – Systematic (1922) gifted to the artist by Flynn William, with one photograph superimposed; a culmination of ideas and works as response to the song. Included in the photograph is the sculpture ESP Monolithic Wicket made of pine timbers, plexiglass, rusted roofing iron, roofing screws, nails, all the lyric sheets to ESP (Telepathy) painted and performed with Same Name Confusion at 121 Festival adhered to the verso by Holdfast HEAVY DUTY PARCEL TAPE, white interior/exterior paint and light sources (220 x 120 x 26cm) employed as a cricket wicket at the end of the cricket strip which is informed by white interior/exterior paint on mown grass by a Masport Briggs & Statton 725EX Series lawnmower from Benji Hartfield Studio. The cricketer is wearing a Medium Ralph Lauren Polo Cricket Sweater made in China 100% COTTON HAND KNIT from SaveMart Whanganui, along with Gray-Nicolls Excalibur 500 batting pads borrowed from 7-year-old Johnny (the cricketer’s next-door neighbour) along with Johnny’s BAIFA Best Quality red cricket bat. Other forms include a caravan and the artist’s 1999 Rover 416 Cabriolet, underneath two pohutukawas.

May-June 2020