HEIMDALL

In the collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia

Stage 2 Desk 1

The Heimdall: Stage 2, desks incorporate the screens from both ends of Stage 1, with the addition of a Zoomorphic lip form into the side where there was not one before. Stage 2, Desk, 1 also utilises the drawer unit and paper shelves from the original configuration.

Reconfigured from Heimdall Gaurdian Desk Stage 1

Previously In the collection of the Crafts Council of Australia

 

Reception desks, silver ash, silver ash veneer, solid core laminate, anodized aluminium.

The primary device in this work is a system of two, three-leaved Queensland Silver Ash screens with expressed, anodized blue and red aluminium joining plates. Each set presents on three planes with an undulating upper horizon. Five screens are flat and one is curved with the two outer screens manifesting with a curved end line diminishing to the bottom and with a heavily stylized suggestion of wings at the upper corners. One of Lueckenhausen’s core leitmotifs, a Zoomorphic form originally adapted from a Jacaranda seedpod but which later developed into a lip form sits at the top of one of the inner screens and joins the wings in making an understated reference to Zoomorphic movement, presence, and importantly, personality. In Heimdall Stage 1, which utilied both sets of screens, the work surface intersects them, a floating black top suggesting an infinite plane.