File No. 027

Twin-Eyes Mallory

Watches Both Doors

"I don't blink. Somebody around here has to keep looking."

Found: Bottom shelf, behind the paint thinner · Filed 1986

Quirks

• Cannot be photographed from the left
• Insists the workshop has a fourth wall no one else can see
• Keeps two of everything, in case one of her misses it

Parts

• Twin galvanized pipe elbows, eyes
• Rusted rigging shackles, arms
• Circuit breaker housing, torso
• Bent flashing, plinth

Origin

Mallory arrived in two halves, three years apart. The elbows first, still threaded together, still refusing to unscrew. The shackles came later, in a coffee tin marked 'MISC, DO NOT SORT.'

When we finally set the pieces on the same plate, the second eye rotated a quarter turn on its own. We took that as consent.