nest… upcoming installation

Today is the 1st of August… I have 17 days until …
Nest
Stories in rope and clay
Today I bring inside the heavy brown rope and start to pull it apart
    It is thick with dirt, dust and oil. It holds a story of work.
    It is rugged and strong, like an old farmer who has spent his life in the fields…”
 
These nests have been woven from rope and formed in clay.
 
Fragile containers for hope: 
an invocation for 
shelter, security and safety
for all. 
 
This work is my response to her experiences as a community artist, bearing witness to stories of trauma that flow from or lead to the loss of a home, a safe space, a community.
 
 “If only rebuilding a home, a community, a future was as simple as twisting some found rope and reclaimed copper…”
 
Hope is a fragile thing, so easily lost sight of in the barrage of media and world events. But it is “the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.” (Emily Dickinson)
 
 
Opening     Wednesday 17th August 6 – 9pm    
Runs          17th August – 3rd September    
Hours         Wed – Sat 12 – 5pm     
 
at
Rubicon ARI
Level 1/ 309
Queensberry Street
North Melbourne
VIC 3051 Australia
Please come and join me at the opening on Wednesday 17th August 6 – 9 pm
This work was developed in a Creative Spaces managed studio.
Creative Spaces is a program of Arts Melbourne at the City of Melbourne
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