One man's rubbish, another mans treasure
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By Alistair Child January 2007
I call it seeing the wood within the trees, looking at something and having the ability to see something completely different.
When viewing modern art work or sculpture we often hear murmurings
from someone in the crowd, “look at that! I could do that, make one of
those”. Or the same thought may seep into our own head at times.
But did they or you have that thought, probably not, or you would be the artist and someone else would be doing the looking.
Chris Meder of Dunedin looks at things and sees other things. A good
example of this is looking at a rusty farm implement like an old seed
sowing machine and seeing what? Well “there’s an albatross for a start”
and “there, there’s some feathers as well”.
It is obvious when you see the finished sculpture, anyone can see the albatross; it was always there, just waiting to come out.
And out they all come, all manner of birds, flowers, fish, like big
fish. Then there are letterboxes and trains and motorbikes and, and,
and lots of amazing stuff.
Chris certainly has an eye for it all right, and so does Miriam.
Miriam Christie and Chris are partners at home and at work. She does
her thing with 1970’s floral fabrics turning them into very nice ‘tops
and skirts’.
She also does cool and practical bags, all of which can be seen at Chris and Miriam’s Moat Street studio.
Moat Street can be found at the very north end of Great King Street in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.
If you are into garden sculpture or just interesting works of art then go and see them, they are very cool.
See more photos in the Recycled Relics album
Friday January 19 2007 02:35 p.m.