Rihkee Strap

Prayer helmet with plinth

Mixed Media (Gifted materials)

Helmet; Authentic World War II helmet, gold leaf, turtle shells, and dreadlocks.

Plinth; djarum cigarette inserts, acrylic paint.

2011

Destroyed

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Indicator Species.

Acrylic wash with lino-cut butterfly wing prints placed in recycled cellophane from Clove cigarette packets, sewn shut and linked together. Each barrel hoop contains subsequently less wing prints.

Remnants from the Greenhouse Graveyard

NFS

A sculptural exhibition featuring works by: Christopher Shoust, Shirley Horn, Mike Bennardo, Rihkee Strap and Aleisha Chapman.

The main feature of my works in the Unseen Exchange was titled “Horse Power,” a degrading corpse-like structure centred around a bicycle wheel. I wanted to talk about forgotten history, specifically the transition from horses to motor vehicles as the main mode of transportation, but also the horse in the context of art history; the relationship between the horse and the person, and the importance of the horse in everyday life. Replaced by motor vehicles, whose gas reliance is now reaching a shift into the archaic, the decaying horse stands to say that “everything has its time.”

I saw the unseen exchange as a fleeting experience, and saw fit the works mirrored this with decaying salt-treated latex, and their ultimate destruction after the end of exhibit.

Photos from opening night!

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