“While making Walter Mellon’s Alligator I thought of this piece. It’s not possible to tell which is the croc and which the alligator because the taxonomic details are so imprecise. It occurred to me that I could equally sensibly change the title to: ‘ An Alligator pursued by a Crocodile pursued by a Cayman’ because the third one could be either or both given the lack of clues to their identities.

Watching the slabs of reptile flipping round the endless belt, I thought of adding a decorative feature: the cross-sections of both animals have pieces of Japanese paper pasted onto them. Both are predominately red, as I presume would be the case with the real animals, but the leading faces of the wooden versions have butterflies on them; the trailing faces have flowers. ” P. Spooner

2024

Height: 22cm
Width: 33cm
Depth: 7.5cm (12cm incl. handle)

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