Axe: 'How fragile We are'

Artist: Conor Jeory

Title: Axe: 'How fragile We are'

Medium: Carved exotic wood

Dimensions: H: 35cm L: 30cm

Artwork kōrero

This Riddled and Broken fragment of - A woodsmans axe - fashioned from exotic wood. With the form of an industrial utilitarian tool - taught, suspended, frozen used to fell our indigenous forests, Yet fragile and friable in its materiality and mimicking the burrowing and laceworking of the denizens in the decaying, decomposing undergrowth of a virulent life bearing natural forest - clear felled, stripped to be farmed, tamed, formalised

This ghost of the Hard Cold Steel that came And chopped down Tānes Cloaks