Sue Michael
Adelaide August 2010
Adelaide August 2010
During
my childhood, my family travelled extensively across Australia in a
caravan. My Grandparents could never travel this far due to work/
farming commitments. I too am like them. It has been 24 years since I
have had more than a couple of days travelling across a state border.
Those childhood vistas occupy my thoughts even now. This painting
‘Great Divide,’ is inspired by old slides. I have collaged 35mm
slides, made tritpography- like images using dual projectors, then
finally mixing our family’s slides from the 1960’s and 70’s.with
stranger’s holiday snapshots. New landscapes emerged from my
experimentations. The eyes stare back.
I must cross those borders once again to visit the earth energies.
My
collaboration with Lindi Harris’s image continues the theme of
longing to return to the earth energies that I was acutely aware of
as a child.
Suitcases
will be photographed at various locations around Adelaide.
Lindi’s
original image has gone through a few photographic abstractions and
been replicated into ‘tiles’. I have covered three suitcases
resulting in a French toile feel to these Australian landscapes.
Other peoples’ hearts always go with you when you travel. Vessels
for these well wishes are supplied with the luggage tags.
The Earth's waters are both boundaries and pathways for peoples, objects and ideas.
Fumio Nanjo
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