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Group exhibition Biennial at JamFactory Gallery, Adelaide SA
2005
For the final associates exhibition I made a collection of 20 bowls with a flocked drawing on them. Here is what I wrote about them.
Walking through the early morning city, before the streets have been cleaned, I started to notice garbage. It’s amazing how dirty this place gets, but it’s mostly invisible by 9am.
I don’t think that garbage is beautiful, but it is interesting.
When I started to photograph the garbage I got the feeling that I was making people uncomfortable. I was drawing attention to something that people usually filter out.
The black and white images are somehow iconic: they are apt experiment for contemporary urban decoration.
Engraving the bowls and then flocking the images has stripped the function from these objects, making them unsuitable for guacamole.
20 blown glass bowls with flocked drawings
“Walking through the early morning city, before the streets have been cleaned, I started to notice garbage. It’s amazing how dirty this place gets, but it’s mostly invisible by 9am. I don’t think that garbage is beautiful, but it is interesting. When I started to photograph the garbage I got the feeling that I was making people uncomfortable. I was drawing attention to something that people usually filter out. The black and white images are somehow iconic: they are apt experiment for contemporary urban decoration. Engraving the bowls and then flocking the images has stripped the function from these objects, making them unsuitable for guacamole.