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	Timaru / Oamaru Artists Michael Armstrong Parking Building Sculpture Designed to be displayed either suspended or to sit on floor, 3-D work painted in the round. Abstract paint covers the surface (Western materialism in the computer age meets its archaic antedecedants) the paint uses patterns of colour in modern graphic patterns. Use of colour to convey life and energy. Michael O'Brien L'Infinito by Giacomo Leopardi Handsewn on tapes laced into sculpted boards, depicting an inward converging spiral with a hole through the board revealing centre of endpaper spiral design in gold. Handmade end boards, edges cut and stained black. Raised relief in balsa and jute cords beneath leather. Raised sculpted 'horizon' onlay covered in blood red Dutch vellum. Kangaroo skin stained grey, gradually to black forms a tight black full binding. Green sanded and stained oasis goatskin onlaid over the kangaroo skin.