SKIOBLAONIR
Great Table With Ten Chairs, referencing a Viking ship, Huon Pine.
Made on invitation for the 3rd Australian Sculpture Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria
In Norse myth, Skioblaonir is the ship of Freyr. The ship was made by Brokk and Sindri, two dwarves and sons of Ivaldi. Originally it belonged to Loki, but was given to Freyr as part of Loki's reparation for the theft of Sif's golden hair. The ship was big enough to hold the whole of the host of Asgard, and whenever the sails were hoisted, a fair wind followed. It could travel over both land and sea. Skioblaonir was made by so many parts and with such ingenuity that it could be folded like a cloth and carried in one's pouch.
(ref: <a href="http://www.worldsofimagination.com/twenty" rel="nofollow">www.worldsofimagination.com/twenty</a> worlds atlantis Midgard Gods.htm)
In Skioblaonir, Lueckenhausen utilizes the golden mean and other strategies for working within grids and mathematically influenced proportions. As with much of his mannered use of geometry, he is able to create a celebration of dynamic form and colour, and underpin the theatricality of the work with a system of order.
Huon Pine, the celebrated material from Tasmania, which in timber-appreciation circles has attained an almost mythical state itself, was used in the early days of European settlement as a boat building material because of its high oil content (and consequent resistance to rot), its exceptional stability and the ease with which it can be worked.
