Seeds & Sack 2021
Installation:  Iteration 12 - mothermother, Auckland, 2021

Evolving over a three-week period, this work explores feminal life essence through a material-based practice. . . Allowing the work to build and form over time acts as a conceptual manifestation of life as a continuous process of formation.  Gathering, assembling and connecting, human and non-human, material and non-material underscore the relational nature and cyclical pulse of life. 

Michelle Mayn Seeds and Sack (2020) Seeds dehisced from kuruwaka (Harakeke/New Zealand flax pods) from 2018 to 2019 harvest; mesh sack (polypropolene), from wood fire with family during winter 2020; muka (harakeke fibre) and pebble.
Seeds & Sack
2021
Seeds dehisced from kuruwaka (Harakeke/New Zealand flax pods) from 2018 to 2019 harvest; mesh sack (polypropolene), from wood fire with family during winter 2020; muka (harakeke fibre) and pebble.
64 H x 25 W x 25 D cm (variable on installation)

Photo credit: Sam Tozer

Michelle Mayn Seeds and Sack (2020)
Seeds & Sack (detail)

Photo credit: Sam Tozer

Michelle Mayn Seeds and Sack (2020)
Seeds & Sack (seed detail)

Photo credit: Sam Tozer

Michelle Mayn Seeds and Sack (2020)
Seeds & Sack (counterweight detail)

Photo credit: Sam Tozer

Michelle Mayn Seeds and Sack (2020)
Seeds & Sack (sack detail)

Photo credit: Sam Tozer

Michelle Mayn Seeds and Sack (2020)
Seeds & Sack (seed detail)

Photo credit: Sam Tozer

Michelle Mayn Seeds and Sack (2020)
Seeds & Sack (foreground Kuruwaka)

Photo credit: Sam Tozer