Tabitha Moses
Residency at Beaconhouse National University
The Care of Hunting Boots
2004
A project exploring the performance of quiet labour. The afternoon was spent in the outbuildings of a country house, polishing a pair of hunting boots in the traditional manner: using boot polish, beeswax and a stag’s shin bone. This was a site-specific response to a powerful sense of place and history, a reflection upon the eroticism of wealth and power, and the thrill of subservience.
Materials include a pair of man's hunting boots, black boot polish, beeswax, a stag's shin bone, parrafin lamp.
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