Declaration (*Sold*)

$275.00
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14" x 7.5" x 4"

A cockatoo in regal dress becomes the voice of grandiosity in Declaration. Clock gears spin in stillness around this figure of pomp and persona, framed by music, wood, and leafy decay. This piece celebrates the theatrical declarations we make—about who we are, or wish to be. At once serious and satirical, it hums with the energy of pageant, parody, and poetic machinery.

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14" x 7.5" x 4"

A cockatoo in regal dress becomes the voice of grandiosity in Declaration. Clock gears spin in stillness around this figure of pomp and persona, framed by music, wood, and leafy decay. This piece celebrates the theatrical declarations we make—about who we are, or wish to be. At once serious and satirical, it hums with the energy of pageant, parody, and poetic machinery.

Contact Us if you’d like to commission a similar piece!

Materials List

  • Printed vintage-style cockatoo portrait

  • Brass and steel clock gears

  • Clock spring coil

  • Dried green floral elements

  • Sheet music fragments

  • Wooden scrollwork

  • Optical dome

  • Gold-tone picture frame

  • Mixed found objects, hardware, adhesives

  • Shadowbox wood construction with layered compartments

A portrait of a cockatoo in Elizabethan garb—regal, composed, and utterly absurd—anchors the composition of Declaration. Surrounded by a swirl of clock gears and framed by curled wood and leafy fragments, the bird gazes outward as if announcing a sovereign truth. Behind and beside it, timepieces tick in absentia, brass teeth interlocking in silent pageantry. Musical notation climbs the inner frame, evoking a score for pomp and circumstance. This assemblage is both parody and proclamation: a mechanical symphony to ego, spectacle, and self-invention.