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| Kath Fries, Decant - work in progress, 2014, found materials |
In addition to my ceramic pieces, I've been working with found materials to introduce a sense of the creek - the site where the ewers were discovered - into my Decant installation plans. My studio now houses a mass of debris: branches, vines, pine needles and leaves, which I've collected from the 'flood lines' on the banks of Prospect creek. I'm planning to distill and reassemble this messy collection into a simplified lineal wall work that will trail around the gallery walls.
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| Prospect Creek, satellite view - Google Maps |
Viewed from above, the creek is a contoured organic line, tracing a topographical ancient path in the landscape. Our customary manner of interpreting existence as sequential linear time - in a straightforward notion of past, present and future - is such assumed behaviour it is difficult to unravel or to try to think of time in other ways. However the creek itself demonstrates the flow of time as simultaneously ancient and constantly changing, as Heraclitus said - you can never step in the same river twice.
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| Kath Fries, Decant - work in progress, 2014, found materials |
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| Kath Fries, Prospect Creek - vines and flood debris up a tree, 2014 |
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| Kath Fries, Decant work in progress, 2014, flood debris FCMG studio |
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| Kath Fries, FCMG studio, 2013, line ideas with found wire and vines |
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| Kath Fries, Prospect Creek - snagged flood debris, 2013 |
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| Kath Fries, FCMG studio, 2014, creek ink drawing, vines and ceramics |
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| Kath Fries, Prospect Creek - vines, 2014 |
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| Kath Fries, FCMG studio, 2014, found materials and vines |
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| Kath Fries, Prospect Creek - flood debris paths, 2013 |
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| Kath Fries, Decant - work in progress, 2014, flood debris - found materials |
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| Kath Fries, Prospect Creek - flood debris, 2013 |
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| Kath Fries, Decant - work in progress, 2014, flood debris - found materials |
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| Kath Fries, Prospect Creek - snagged flood debris, 2013 |
This is the fifth in a series of blog posts from my FCMG studio.
I would like to thank Fairfield City Museum and Gallery for this commission and the opportunity of being their first artist-in-residence. The work resulting from my residency will be exhibited in a solo exhibition, 'Decant', in the Stein Gallery at Fairfield City Museum and Gallery (cnr The Horsely Dr and Oxford St, Smithfield NSW 2164), 22 February - 12 April 2014. Opening night: Wednesday 26 February, 6.30-8.30pm
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