Allegorical Drawings
These works were shown in an online exhibition, 'Carbon - Borders - Voices' in 2022.
Part imagination, part observation, these monoprint drawings reference the loss of life and land due to human’s destruction of natural habitats. In both images, the subjects experience physical barriers and thresholds: A human observer as an inanimate vase of flowers displays a vulnerable position, commenting on the limited time to act as well as being a metaphor for the general transience of life. Meanwhile, hope and future prospects are symbolised by the migratory bird journeying towards a single flower.
In A Display of the Uninhabitable, the ear does not hear the plight of the bird above water whose habitat is now flooded and unsuitable for nesting. I am also conscious of how sound travels underwater and how for marine life like porpoises and whales, the noise pollution from human activity can be deadly.
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Six trace monotype prints on brown paper, each 19 x 14 cm
