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Destination art · Nipton, California
Perpetual Consumption: shopping carts as a public conversation
Spiegelworld lists Perpetual Consumption in its Nipton, California art collection pages and identifies shopping carts as its medium. Its account connects the work to repeated consumer spending and to reuse and repurposing. The source provides a specific hospitality and destination-art context for Blake’s use of familiar objects at installation scale.
Spiegelworld — Perpetual Consumption ↗ · Reviewed 2026-10-10
For your project briefWhich everyday materials carry a story that people at the proposed site would recognize?
Big Art Partners planning prompt Sculpture festival · Currumbin, Australia
Transparent Connection: scale, acrylic and the surrounding skyline
In SWELL’s 2019 artist interview, Blake describes Transparent Connection as an inhabitable installation made from 180 clear acrylic tiles. He explains how the Currumbin setting and distant Surfers Paradise skyline informed its scale and shape. Transparency, reflections and changing shadows were part of the planned visitor experience.
SWELL Sculpture Festival — interview with Clayton Blake ↗ · Reviewed 2026-10-10
For your project briefWhich views and changing daylight conditions should shape the scale and transparency of a new installation?
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