PAUL ETIENNE LINCOLN
The Glover's Repository
(2015-2017)
Subterfuge, the recalcitrant nemesis of deception, lingers in a crystalline temple: The Glovers’ Repository.
This is the story of an illuminated vitrine holding a sampling of twenty-four gloves, each sourced from historical figures selected from a period of some 300 years. Each figure has either committed a deception or is the victim of a duplicity.
The repository contains greatly varied examples, each is explicated through biographical notes in a dedicated publication.
A glove is a metaphor and a tool, enabling its wearer to renege on implausible promises through an apparent lack of touch, or feeling. A glove’s caress is a seduction that may deny its intention!
PRINTS & EDITIONS
Steel and curved glass vitrine containing 24 gloves, belonging to historical figures which have been deceived or have caused deception in their lives. Each glove is rotated slowly the number of years each individual lived in there life in a single hour via a mechanism based on the workings of Big Ben.
End View of the Glover’s Repository
Biographies on the flanking walls relate to the gloves in the vitrine.
The rear side of the vitrine showing the (Grimthorpe) double three-legged gravity escapement based on Big Ben’s tower clock.
The Gloves of Clement Ader and Irene Adler. Ader falsified claims as to being the first to fly. Adler (a fictional character) deceived Sherlock Holmes his only true love.
The view of Nino Farina in relationship to the Glovers’ Repository.
Nino Farina.(Speed King) 2015. Glass case containing a racing glove which rotates at the speed of Farina’s fastest lap at Silverstone’s 1st Formula 1 race in 1950, (1.50 rpm) ,His glove is driven through the gearbox of a speedometer. 42 x 10 inches Dia.
Helle Nice. (Speed Queen) 2015. Glass case containing the glove of Miss Nice, rotating at the speed of her fastest lap at Monthery land-speed record in 1929. Her glove is driven through the gearbox of a speedometer. 42 x 10 inches Dia
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