Undoings are a series of soft sculptures that arose out of research into unmaking as a creative act. Manifested from deconstructing a multitude of earlier 2D landscape paintings, I was exploring how one might go about disrupting colonial perspectives and approaches to Land. Cut up and reconfigured with remnants from other works to arrive at rotatable and flexible 3D configurations of form, colour and pattern, each piece formally alludes to the multiplicity and complexity of any one given site.   

 

Each Undoing produces an endless number of arrangements that visually dissolve traditional representations of boundaries, horizon lines and space.  No longer flat against the wall or stretched tight across a wood frame, their mutating arrangement of fibre and paint breathe new potential into the material and unsettle traditional renderings of Land, Water and sky so as to point to the interconnectivity of different environments. Their protrusion into the audience's physical space draws attention to the liveliness of things and how things or beings cross into territories / space not their own. Their abject forms and potential to be in a constant state of becoming also communicates how one's relationship to a place is extremely personal and therefore unknown and always other."  Click here to listen to a short artist talk on my Undoings.