Object Library. Coco de mer.

This Image was created by JCB.
The concept is described as:-
"The largest of seeds also evokes woman, both painfully
constrained and damaged.

Seed: food, survival, genetic manipulation, pesticides, taken into
ownership of global business, poverty and ruin of small farmers,
hunger, suicide epidemic of small scale Indian cotton growers,
wholesale destruction of botanical resources.

Woman: denial of education and human rights, trafficked, honour
killings, rape as deliberate part of military strategy, in modern
conflict more dangerous to be a woman than a soldier."

Upper and Lower Dynamics.

An idea has occurred to me to contrast the downward motion of impacts onto the stave with the upward growth of corrosion from the plinth. This mock up illustrates what I mean. Eventually there might be a point when downward impact and upper 'growth' merge.