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      Dogs Body II (2023)

      Synthetic Polymer on Palette Wood
      110 x 70 x 25cm             Dogs Body II is carved from a single Amazon pallet, its body glued, shaped, and ground into a headless anatomical K9 form. From one side it appears as a torso; from the other, a disembodied head. Standing on pallet offcuts, the figure feels caught between support structure and industrial debris, an animal born from the infrastructure of global logistics.

      The sculpture holds a double presence: part companion, part casualty. Its surface is stained, then inscribed with the names of workers from the Foxconn scandal who died by suicide on the factory floor. Linked to low pay and brutal working conditions at the Foxconn City industrial park in Shenzhen, China. Their stories mark the wood like quiet fractures, turning a discarded shipping object into a memorial to the human cost embedded in the systems that move goods across the world.

      Neither fully alive nor fully gone, Dogs Body II becomes a proxy for bodies worked to the edge of disappearance — a dog without a head, a head without a body, a form split by the pressures that shape it. The work invites reflection on labour, consumption, and the unseen lives that underpin the world’s supply chains.