Fiona Long Art

Urban Flux Sculpture

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This large sculpture is made from old electrical components and circuit boards from outdated and discarded electrical equipment. Technology changes and is changed perhaps even faster than the city so I felt that this was the perfect metaphor for my Urban Flux project. The circuit boards are also hidden under layers and you need to hunt below the surface to find them. The map like quality of the piece is down to the small components fused onto the circuit boards (with flux in some cases) which resemble buildings and the wires connecting the separate sectors are like an urban infrastructure of roads and tube lines. Some people have commented that it looks like a city that has been bombed so that would be undergoing an awful lot of change! I wanted it to be a machine that did something underwhelming. It has a flush chain that you can pull and the machinery plays Frère Jacques! There are also LEDs that light up some areas of the city. A couple of them flash but they just become part of the urban landscape rather than distracting from it.

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