Narrative, 2020
Narrative, 2020
Ink on paper. various sizes. One of a kind.
My thoughts, given over to you, to see their reflection change by your influence.
Please feel free to read the works and take home a piece that resonates with you.
Artist Reflection:
Narrative is 100 thoughts written by typewriter on small delicate Japanese paper squares. Each square is hung individually in the space to create a though forest of sorts. The pieces sway in reaction to the movement around them. The paper is gentle enough to walk through; the text is present enough to demand attention.
I watch the way people interact with the installation and wonder if they recognise themselves in this sea of noticings, memories, anxieties and hopes. As someone pulls a piece away, I become instantly curious about how our lives and thoughts could interact without knowing each other. I want to ask people what piece they held, why they noticed it, what it means to them but mostly I leave them to their intimate moment with a piece of paper and text.
I remember walking through this exact gallery a few months prior, being forced to walk around a hanging sculpture of a life size paper Captain Cook figure. I found the figure disturbing and ultimately confronting, the way I had to interact with it, giving it space and seeing it shift around as I walked past. It planted a seed, that creepy, hanging artwork.
On reflection, I could never have known that allowing the audience in to not only interact with the works but take them away, could fundamentally change the way I look at art and intimacy, vulnerability and connection. These artworks are changing hands, changing meanings and perceptions and locations. They are evolving from my hand to an unknown fate, to sit perhaps on someone’s bedside table, be lost in the bottom of a pocket, become a bookmark. It is uncontrollable and beautiful, that they will take on the mark of their new life and in doing so become greater than anything I could create alone.
Salamanca Arts Centre, Tasmania
Our-Self exhibition presents the work of Studio 227 artists Rosie Hastie, Brooke Stevens, Bree Sanders, Cassie Sullivan and Sarah Williams. We are exploring the notion of ‘self’ and what we know to be true about the human experience. With diverse processes and varying interpretations of what we are encompassing, Our-Self is stretching out the intimacies and vulnerabilities and seeing what story forms. The works span from large scale prints, to graphite on paper and small scale sculptural pieces.
‘We don’t exist unless there is someone who can see us existing, what we say has no meaning until someone can understand.’ - Alain De Botton
