
This
machine is a small version of a Paul Spooner original , the original being 5
or 6 times as big and a great deal more complex , however the small version
does reassemble itself.
The girl delivers the bad news by moving her lips and stands up to leave,
her boyfriend cannot deal with the resulting emotion and promptly collapses
in a heap with his chair. He is a vegetarian hence the cucumber painted
inside his torso. The machine then resets itself. The box is Douglas fir
with a beech ,brass, steel and string mechanism the couple are carved of
lime.
The model is 130mm x 90mm x 210mm high. There are 12 only , made in December
1994.
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