Declaration
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.
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.
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.
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.