Yoke, 2010
- Exhibition
- Fresh from the Oven, Coachwerks, Brighton
- Opened
- 28 August 2010
- Format
- Interactive sculpture
A yoke is the wooden beam that binds a pair of oxen so that they can pull a load together. In Yoke it becomes an image of working life, and of labour shared, harnessed and spent.
The central work, A Good Egg, is a coin-operated machine. Visitors paid to turn its dial; an egg was released and smashed, and its yolk ran slowly down a spiral track. The viewer's own money sets the mechanism in motion, and the title's play on yoke and yolk keeps the burden and its product in the same word.
A Good Egg, 2010
Coin-operated machine, eggs
Interactive work, operated by visitors