Are we there yet?
Exhibition dates: Wed 27 August to Sat 13 September 2008
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Man arrives at his newfound land ‘Terror Annihilate’ (Terra Nullius). Killing what he cannot control, he attempts to make it just like his old land. Out with the old in with the new, until the new becomes just like the old. Is there a point to this exercise?
These new works are produced on waste objects, once cherished but now despised - I flatten them out into “canvases” and paint on them with rocks from the river.
The work is about seeing what is already here.
In man’s constant search for more the planet is being destroyed, and for what? I aim to reconnect people back to nature and to lost value by imbuing their discarded objects with the natural beauty of place.
There is a journey which everyone sets out upon, each following their own various signs. This work attempts to show a short cut; the sign posts point to nothing; however this so called nothing is very much alive, enough unto itself. The child in the back seat, “Are we there yet? Are we there yet!”
