MYLYN NGUYEN Once Upon a Time 29 September to 24 October 2015
MYLYN NGUYEN Once Upon a Time 29 September to 24 October 2015
Once upon a time I broke every watch I was given only to find I could not work out how they worked. Music boxes were dismantled and the music making part pulled apart. The death of each ladybird in my Mylyn made jar garden brought me no closer to knowing why ladybirds didn’t like me. I thought if I stared at my nose, my eyebrows and the shower hose, I would figure them out eventually. I unstitched dolls clothes, unwrapped bindi seeds and stripped toy cars to their wheels and discovered more why. Why a cloud? How do birds fly? How do kites? How does the moon know when to just appear? How does water come from a shower hose?
Mylyn Nguyen, ‘Do whales fly?’ 2015, paper, brass wire, timber, (hand crank) clock mechanism, 40 x 18 x 13.5cm
Mylyn Nguyen, ‘I wish I could call clouds’ 2015, cork, brass wire, fibre, timber, battery operated clock mechanism, 29.5 x 24.5 x 13.5cm
Mylyn Nguyen, ‘The moment you see the first green, is my favourite moment’ 2015, watercolour on paper, cork, brass tube, timber, battery operated clock mechanism, 26.5 x 13.5 x 13.5cm
Mylyn Nguyen, ‘Seedling’ 2015, watercolour on paper, cork, timber, batter operated clock mechanism, 26.5 x 24.5 x 13.5cm
Mylyn Nguyen, ‘My dad told me that I would be reborn into a snail to be stepped on. I hope so.’ 2015, acrylic on clay, battery operated clock mechanism, brass wire, timber, 28 x 13.5 x 13.5cm
Mylyn Nguyen, ‘Time lapse’ 2015, watercolour on paper, cork, brass tube, timber, (hand crank) clock mechanism, 34 x 19.5 x 13.5cm
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