What lies beneath

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Artist: Nicole De Mestre 

Title: What lies beneath 

Year: 2018

Materials: Recycled fan guards and cables ties

Dimensions: HEIGHT 100cm, WIDTH 100cm, LENGTH 100cm

APPROX. WEIGHT-   3 (KG) each

A group of 15 spheres placed on the rocks along foreshore or Torakina. 

The microscopic remains of calcified skeletons of countless tiny single-celled algae, deposited on ancient seabeds millions of years ago, bear an uncanny resemblance to discarded fan guards seen in almost every roadside pickup pile.

The ubiquitous cooling fan could be construed as an ironic take on global warming. We use fans to maintain pleasant short-term temperatures in our immediate surroundings, while at the same time we are contributing to higher long-term global temperatures through depletion of our planet’s resources. 

Shamefully, all these mass-produced, inexpensive, throwaway fans are destined for landfill, adding to the ever-increasing layers that lie beneath us.


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Nicole de Mestre is an environmental artist, who is motivated by producing something of beauty from materials that would otherwise have ended their days in a landfill site. She tries to reduce her impact on the planet and uses art to communicate her thoughts about society’s unsustainable consumer habits and living practices. She creates an eclectic range of artistic works, all linked through the use of recycled materials and found objects. Much of her process is obtaining materials and often their shapes, colour and texture determine the final work.