Medium: Recycled alcohol cans, timber
Size: 2400mm high x 1200mm wide
Price: $1,000
Background: My father was a tee totalling, refrigeration engineer at Dominion Breweries for 35 years. He should have been shifted to the marketing department in the 60’s when he came up with this bold marketing statement:
”Roadside litter proves that DB is the favourite beverage of the motoring public!”
In a quest to bring attention to the senseless deaths on our roads by people who think they have a right to drink and drive, I have covered a 2.4 metre cross with discarded alcohol cans collected from along the verges of Makarau Road, a quiet country road in Rodney where I live. My analysis of the cans reveals that in these parts Woodstock Bourbon and Cola is now the favorite beverage of the drink, driving public!
The installation features a 2.4 m high by 1.3m wide cross covered with flat sheets of the collected aluminium cans covering the wooden structure. The cross is sited in a patch of rough regenerating scrub that looks very much like our unkempt country roadsides. There are numerous squashed and run over cans lying in the bracken, as if tossed from the passing cars. A glass jar containing a dead bunch of flowers is placed at the foot of the cross, a silent reminder of the people left behind to mourn the death of their loved one.
Size: 2400mm high x 1200mm wide
Price: $1,000
Background: My father was a tee totalling, refrigeration engineer at Dominion Breweries for 35 years. He should have been shifted to the marketing department in the 60’s when he came up with this bold marketing statement:
”Roadside litter proves that DB is the favourite beverage of the motoring public!”
In a quest to bring attention to the senseless deaths on our roads by people who think they have a right to drink and drive, I have covered a 2.4 metre cross with discarded alcohol cans collected from along the verges of Makarau Road, a quiet country road in Rodney where I live. My analysis of the cans reveals that in these parts Woodstock Bourbon and Cola is now the favorite beverage of the drink, driving public!
The installation features a 2.4 m high by 1.3m wide cross covered with flat sheets of the collected aluminium cans covering the wooden structure. The cross is sited in a patch of rough regenerating scrub that looks very much like our unkempt country roadsides. There are numerous squashed and run over cans lying in the bracken, as if tossed from the passing cars. A glass jar containing a dead bunch of flowers is placed at the foot of the cross, a silent reminder of the people left behind to mourn the death of their loved one.
