Cardboard Concerto Resourceful Overture First Movement in E minor

This full-scale replica of a W.J.Payne upright piano is made entirely from reclaimed materials. We made this piece for the inaugural exhibition of the Sun Pier House gallery. This project idea came about from a discussion, questioning whether anything was original or simply just an amalgamation of pre-existing concepts, materials, sounds and ideas. We made a piano to represent this thought through a musical instrument, as musical scores are the easiest examples to see this recycling of pre-existence. There are only 12 notes that are used to compose all the melodies ever made. As Kirby Furguson says "Art cannot be created or destroyed — only remixed"

This sculpture is merely a collection of rearranged cardboard, compiled to stimulate the visual mapping of a presupposed shape - that of a piano.
The piano has gained popular success in the local region, and in June 2014 it made it onto the Medway Council's Discover Medway short film made by Spaghetti Western Productions.