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Collision Collection

Johnny Nargoodah and Trent Jansen, 2020

Collisions is set of three works, a bench, armchair and vessel. They were designed by Johnny and Trent, and made by them and Duane Shaw. Newly manufactured car panels are key examples of precision human industrial capability and complex mass production. Attached to Toyota Land Cruisers, Nissan Patrols and Ford Falcons, these industrial objects find their way into the Kimberley region, hurtling down dirt roads and lumbering along bush tracks, all the while exposed to extreme heat and rain as the wet and dry seasons track through their inevitable cycle. It is in this environment that these automobiles and the attached panels are subject to some of the most extreme and trying conditions of any place in the world. In some instances, often tragic for those occupying the vehicle, these industrial machines are put to the ultimate test, careering into a tree, or an oncoming vehicle. Ironically, the most advanced human machinery cannot mimic the affect that a tree or stray bull has on these steel forms. These violent and sometimes traumatic collisions force these car panels into beautifully complex forms, whose undulations could not be achieved by any other means.

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