meltdown blob: audio description

Arts House Listening Program

(meltdown blob): It’s multiple things that collide in common, that’s also right and it’s very different. When my executive functions drop, I forget I have legs and I think I have so many hands because I get so many sensations from them. I’m a meltdown blob. A large sculpture made of paper mache with 4 human shaped arms extending out of it at odd angles. The work is all white, standing approximately a metre high and wide. There is a glow from inside it that is a warm light-flesh colour. The hard-lined shape of its structure is akin to clay that has been pushed at various angles. This effect produces a solid rock-like formation with mounds, ridges, and bumps. Its hollow semi-dome shape is off kilter. Some parts of the bottom edge sit flat on the floor and others are slightly raised. It is as though the sculpture has been captured mid-motion. There is partly transparent skin like paper that stretches across the outside surface of the dome. Between this paper skin are thick vein-like sticks, also wrapped in paper. These sticks appear to be connected to one another, creating the effect of a topographical map. We might be looking down at a river system with sections that fork, or cluster together, others that break off to form different bends and curves. Amongst this, at varying heights, the four arms splay at unusual angles and in unique positions. Two with their thumb facing to the ground. Another with a soft bent elbow and its palm facing to the floor. The final arm extends upwards with a graceful and gentle energy in its calm fingers.