There’s no place like home
that transient spell
found no walls to bounce off
still stretching through time
too taut to let go
A Series of One Liners (detail), embroidery thread on canvas 94cm x 94cm
Not an accent wall
but colour saturated spaces
freshly licked
attempting to drown out what was there before
Womb Room circa 2002, 2024
Digital print on linen, 180cm x 57cm
A Room for Girls to Whistle circa 1984 (top) and A Room of one’s own circa 1989 (bottom), 2024
Digital print on linen, 180cm x 57cm and 180cm x 70cm
Stratified Relations, sound/video collage, 41.4 minutes
Concerning Matter, 9,216 bricks
Mummified Artefacts A through D, timber, skirting, architrave, sill, coving, wallpaper, paste, paint.
c0de to Home: a constellation installation
Opposite the entrance of a white cube, Cathedral-like room
are layered lines of colour.
Womb red to blues,
a soft lilac hue and peppermint green,
tupperware sky grey rescued by a dreamy peach,
followed by a punch of orange.
Beneath the altarpiece-esque wall of colour
a small white prayer stand kneels,
on which lay a canvas bound Order of Service [1] book which reads ‘c0de to Home’.
Positioned at an acute angle facing outwards into the room
a second white stand, stands tall,
looking for attention,
perhaps to lecture, preach, judge or chant.
In the centre of the room fragments of a home are displayed in glass cases,
each capturing layers of colours within their edges.
Each fragment is numbered,
catalogued as lots in the back of the Order of Service book.
A gavel goes down and the auctioneers chant begins.
[1] Order of Service: Explains the structure and content of Christian services. A funeral order of service is a printed guide to the funeral ceremony or service. The booklet often contains details of the deceased with a photo on the front. The inside pages have the funeral service outline and a poem, prayer, or hymn. The back page may have details of the wake, more pictures, the funeral service date, location and so on.