Kath Fries Studio: Bogong Arabesque, 2012

Bogong Arabesque is a site-responsive poetic installation that considers notions of flight, freedom and entrapment.Tumbling down through a hole in the ceiling, spirals of flyscreen and feathers hover mid-movement overhead. Inspired by flocks of seagulls glimpsed at night circling high above the harbour bridge, where they feast on breeding bogong moths attracted to the pylon lights.

Kath Fries, Bogong Arabesque, 2012, feathers, aluminium flyscreen
and pre-existing hole in the ceiling, (detail view).

My use of site and materials links the familiar and everyday with notions of the unseen - that which we suspect exists beyond our physical and actual experience. Often situated in corners and or suspended from ceiling beams, my installations call attention to these boundaries of space and our human limitations of actual experience. Familiar materials recall personal memories and associations, but when manipulated and re-contextualised they lead the viewer into the unfamiliar and unknown. As such my work seeks to create or reveal links between our experience of everyday normality and that which is beyond our life experiences.