Sculpture, Songs for Sorrow

Released 2009, Casablanca Records

“Having collaborated with Mika on his Parc des Princes stadium performance in Paris in 2008, my assistant Machiko Weston and I made a layered paper-cut from some of my early drawings for inclusion in the cover art for Mika’s 2009 Songs for Sorrow short album.”

—Es Devlin

Several white layered cutouts forming a circle; the inside depicts gears and parts of a body connected by mechanical elements; the drawing of a head is one of the top layers.
Es Devlin, Study, Songs for Sorrow
Released 2009, Casablanca Records
Courtesy of Es Devlin
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White circular model with many layered cutouts inside depicting gears and parts of a body connected by mechanical elements; the drawing of a head is one of the top layers.
Es Devlin, Sculpture, Songs for Sorrow, Cut, printed paper and MDF, recreated for exhibition.
Released 2009, Casablanca Records
Photo: Elliot Goldstein © Smithsonian Institution
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