Moira

Moira is a large red and gold music box that explores the concept of destiny through a unique combination of visual art strategies and conceptual references. The key inspiration was the ancient Greek myth of Pandora who, against strict instructions, opened a beautiful box and released all the ills of the world. The work also alludes to classical Greek architecture through the use of decorative Doric columns on the box and table design, and it makes reference to music boxes and the Chinese symbols of good fortune – red and gold. These elements are merged with furniture design, video and sound to create an object of mystery and beauty that also evokes anxiety and claustrophobia. While Pandora let everything escape from the box she opened, inside this bejeweled red and gold box a masked woman slowly and deliberately gathers together thousands of pages that fly towards her from all directions. The internal world of the jewel box thus manifests the impossible desire to reverse the course of history and to control destiny.