Bagger Spurs
2023
Bronze, Steel Chain, Plastic String
10 x 7 x 40 cm (when hung on wall)
Bagger Beater
2023
Wood
10.5 x 80 cm
The use of tools in this grouping of two works points at the ways in which we as humans culminate our ideologies through objects. The spurs take aesthetics form the Bagger 288, a machine at the Garzweiler coal mine in Nordrhein-Westfalen, capable of excavating 240,000 tons of earth daily, it is also the second largest land vehicle on the planet. The Bagger Spurs playfully toy with the idea of control, spurs are a tool for manipulating horses with more accuracy, and it is this demand over an animal which has been used in the fuelling of human progression that allows for a connection to the bagger 288.
The Bagger Beater is based on the Thames Beater, a neolithic club which was discovered on the Thames in London. The Object is believed to be one of the earliest examples of weaponry used by and against other humans and dates 3500BC. The Bagger Beater is not a replica, and instead, like the Thames Beater, is a found object. The word "BAGGER" was then carved into the found bat, and through this connects it to the spurs. Both objects are tools, and they exist as moments in our past, the two together have little in common, but together form a narrative of control, and violence.
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