Hunter Emerging Art Prize
Finalists and Winners
YEAR:
2026
Category:
Sculpture
Artist Name:
Tahni De'Athe
Title:
ode to the moon

Materials:
cardboard
Dimensions:
120cmx120cmx35cm
Price
not for sale
About the artwork:
This artwork explores the frailty of human progression in terms of culture and rituals. Technology has become such an indelible part of our lives and has eclipsed the natural forces that we are still very much beholden to. The moon was our first calendar, silently keeping track of time for millennia, leading our oceans in the dance of life. And yet slowly with the more new inventions, we turned our faces away from the night sky in adoration and paise to lower our gazes to ever-changing screens of time. I chose the World Time Series Casio watch as an icon of the 1970s which has incidently come back into fashion, to convey the cyclical nature of the human condition. The numbers displayed in the watch face chronicle the cyclical statistics of the moon in relation to the Earth. This, combined with the frailty of cardboard, shows that although humans are progressing in time, it does not mean that we are necessarily evolving.
