fabrications

4/40 fabrications, 2001 - 2002, rice paper, beeswax, naphtol dyes, wood, 10cm x 7.5cm

These extremely fragile, intimate works shift the patterns derived from mass produced net fabrics into the organic realm of the hand-made where they become a meditation on surface and desire. The translucent tissue enfolds the frames with the promise of a gift. What is there to uncover? What is there to possess? What if there is nothing?

The delicate snakeskin-like surfaces seem about to shed. They tempt us to touch, pick, peel... 

 

low relief and 3d fabrications, 2002, Side-on Gallery, Annandale, Sydney, Australia, rice paper, beeswax, naphtol dyes, cardboard and wood

fabrication parcels, 2002, Side-on Gallery, Annandale, Sydney, Australia, rice paper, beeswax, naphtol dyes, cardboard and wood