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JUNK ROCKER

n 2013, a 140m-long digger named Phyllis completed her 4.2-mile tunnel dig for London’s Crossrail. At the finish line, job done, she had to dig her own grave. Deemed too heavy to be extricated, she was cast aside, gutted of valuable parts and bricked over. Phyllis’ plight struck a chord with British artist Holly Hendry – so much so that, last year, she installed a work in London’s Selfridges in memory of the digger. The multilayered sculpture was embedded with ‘things that don’t disappear’, such as chewed gum and fake

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