
The Balloon Gramophone Gets Its Final Note
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A huge peach-coloured horn rises through the hall, its flared mouth built from rings of tightly clustered balloons. The smaller shapes deepen toward the throat, making the familiar gramophone outline easy to recognise. A curved neck descends to a square brown base, where a dark circular record and a simple tonearm complete the playful design. The sculpture has the scale of a room-sized installation while keeping the small irregularities of a handmade object.
Visible metal supports follow the back of the horn and brace it to a broad wooden plinth. At the lower edge, a pair of hands secures one final balloon cluster. The hall around it remains open and quiet, with high windows, a timber gallery and rows of chairs against the walls. Daylight falls across the parquet and creates soft changes of colour on the balloon surfaces. The view gives equal attention to the imaginative shape and the practical structure that holds it upright, capturing the last adjustment before the decoration is ready.
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