PhD Research Project (by Studio)
8 July – 6 August 2011
Twenty six photographs of mother and daughter (a singular image repeated 26 times) are developed as a composite of forms through collage.
MOTHER:
Adorned with collaged symbols positioned in each image as a narrative, the mother represents a symbolic imagined state of being. Each alteration is extended, leading to the bifurcation of the mother. The symbols reflect true and felt effects of lived experience, of poignant behaviours conveyed by the mother and subsequently transferred to daughter, (taken from the perspective of the daughter).
DAUGHTER:
The pram embodies the daughter’s ‘spirit’ and is further embellished with collaged symbols each revealing a condensed narrative of sub plots. The ‘curious slug’, the playful moths, the seed ‘indicator’ marking time, the black rectangular form enforcing silence, the ‘liberation’ of a monkey propped on a sea urchin of desire rocks and rises, falling and soaring finally revealing a white form, (a remnant witch) exposing the protagonist.
At the fulcrum of the mother’s image the daughter is adorned with the collaged symbols and steadily accumulates thirteen more ending with twenty six elements that form embedded components of her identity.
Twenty Six Mothers, 2011, Constructed Darkroom, Installation aeaf, Australian Experimental Art Foundation
Twenty Six Mothers, 2011, Constructed Darkroom, Installation aeaf, Australian Experimental Art Foundation
You are a beautiful absent hungry thirsty yellow plastic mystery, 2011, Collaged Photograph, 28 x 21 cm
You are a beautiful absent hungry thirsty yellow plastic mystery monkey, 2011, Collaged Photograph, 28 x 21 cm
You are a beautiful absent hungry thirsty yellow plastic mystery monkey bleeding, 2011, Collaged Photograph, 28 x 21 cm
You are a beautiful absent hungry thirsty yellow plastic mystery monkey bleeding pink, 2011, Collaged Photograph, 28 x 21 cm
You are a beautiful absent hungry thirsty yellow plastic mystery monkey bleeding pink white, 2011, Collaged Photograph, 28 x 21 cm
You are a beautiful absent hungry thirsty yellow plastic mystery monkey bleeding pink white witch, 2011, Collaged Photograph, 28 x 21 cm
You are a beautiful absent hungry thirsty yellow plastic mystery monkey bleeding pink white witch baby, 2011, Collaged Photograph, 28 x 21 cm
I am a beautiful absent hungry thirsty yellow plastic mystery monkey bleeding pink white witch baby hollow mother, 2011, Collaged Photograph, 28 x 21 cm
I am a beautiful absent hungry thirsty yellow plastic mystery monkey bleeding pink white witch baby hollow weeping mother, 2011, Collaged Photograph, 28 x 21 cm
I am a beautiful absent hungry thirsty yellow plastic mystery monkey bleeding pink white witch baby hollow weeping wanton mother, 2011, Collaged Photograph, 28 x 21 cm
I am a beautiful absent hungry thirsty yellow plastic mystery monkey bleeding pink white witch baby hollow weeping wanton watchful mother, 2011, Collaged Photograph, 28 x 21 cm
I am a beautiful absent hungry thirsty yellow plastic mystery monkey bleeding pink white witch baby hollow weeping wanton watchful eat mother, 2011, Collaged Photograph, 28 x 21 cm
I am a beautiful absent hungry thirsty yellow plastic mystery monkey bleeding pink white witch baby hollow weeping wanton watchful eat me mother, 2011, Collaged Photograph, 28 x 21 cm
I am a beautiful absent hungry thirsty yellow plastic mystery monkey bleeding pink white witch baby hollow weeping wanton watchful eat me slowly mother, 2011, Collaged Photograph, 28 x 21 cm
I am a beautiful absent hungry thirsty yellow plastic mystery monkey bleeding pink white witch baby hollow weeping wanton watchful eat me slowly greedy mother, 2011, Collaged Photograph, 28 x 21 cm
I am a beautiful absent hungry thirsty yellow plastic mystery monkey bleeding pink white witch baby hollow weeping wanton watchful eat me slowly greedy one mother, 2011, Collaged Photograph, 28 x 21 cm
I am a beautiful absent hungry thirsty yellow plastic mystery monkey bleeding pink white witch baby hollow weeping wanton watchful eat me slowly greedy one I mother, 2011, Collaged Photograph, 28 x 21 cm
I am a beautiful absent hungry thirsty yellow plastic mystery monkey bleeding pink white witch baby hollow weeping wanton watchful eat me slowly greedy one I see mother, 2011, Collaged Photograph, 28 x 21 cm
