Bottle From the Spice Route
Mark Eliott 2009 (with the assistance of Marina Hyasat)
Artists Statement:
In search of ‘The Bottle Imp’ –reported by Robert Luis Stevenson in 1893, we cast our nets far and wide. For this wondrous yet treacherous creature - bearer of great fortunes and great ruin in equal measure who lives captive in a milk white bottle, we journeyed to many places. Trawling the oceans of the coast of Tahiti with the sting of salt spray on our faces and peering through the curtained windows of the grand houses of San Francisco - even scouring the dusty shelves of Nyonya shops in the streets of Malacca, we search but as yet in vain. Along the way however we have caught this handsome vessel in our net and we beseech you to take good care of it for it may well serve as lodgings for some wayfaring (but generous) Imp in future.
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