COMMUNICATION
Completed: 2023
Shown: Lantana Space, Caloundra
Detail/Materials: Inkjet lustre print (A0), Bluegum wood stand (72 x 26 cm), Canson Aquarelle rag print (4×6), smoke detector, and wooden sculpture (48 x 19 cm); assorted wood, acrylic paint, and metal leaf.
Communication is a multi-media artwork installation comprising of two photographs, a found object (smoke detector), and a hand-constructed wooden sculpture and stand. The autobiographical work explores communication after death, and the personal loss of the artist’s father.
The large photo work, a self-portrait, displays the artist in a costume, suspended in mid-air. Photographed at Kureelpa (the location of the last hike the artist took with her father). The costume, constructed using predominantly thrifted and accessible materials, is a stylised representation of the iconic, red and white, Amanita Muscaria mushroom. The amanita is used as a link to her German ancestry and a continuation of the exploration of psychedelic themes.
The stand, positioned beneath the self-portrait, holds three objects; a photo of the artist’s father in nature, a smoke detector, and a stylised wooden mushroom (Psilocybe cubensis). References to nature, electronic sound, and psychedelics are displayed as facilitators of connection between the physical and non-physical worlds.
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