This hanging sculpture is made of dried seedpods and green grass stems. Dried seedpods curls themself naturally into small spiral tubes. They can be joined without glue. Grass stems were bended to play with angles. But only over a night, the whole composition changed because the grass got quickly dried.
Creating works in the studio and working outdoor in a natural location differently reflect my perception of material and working process. I played with this stone arrangement on a stone beach. But when I remade it, back in the studio, I experienced the process and the outcome differently.
At the Rodd Residency (2015)
In summer 2015, I participated in an artist residency programme at the Rodd by Sidney Nolan Trust, in a group of artists interested in creating artworks in a natural environment concerning site-responsive practice. The event was organized by Liz Morison. Most of the participants came without any specific plans for the outcome. The idea is to experiment to bring about conversation and to respond to the surrounding environment.
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I have found that walking is a subtle event, an activity that leads to be responsive to the surrounding. We spent the first few days walking and observing the land and into the wood. For me, walking is meditative. During the walk, at the beginning my mind flooded with thoughts. The thoughts could travel far in every direction and in different speed. By passing time and repetitive steps, I began to find a silence. That was when all thoughts set about to merge closer to a focus. It is the moment of being sensible and reflective to the environment around, not to my need.
“By walking we escape the idea itself of identity, the desire to be someone, to have a name and a history…The freedom experienced when walking is about not being anyone because the body that walks has no history; It just has an eternal current of life.”
Frédéric Gros
I collected natural materials from different resources and came back to the set-up studio to experiment for their different possibilities. I have found that working with natural materials frequently associates with limitation of time around natural property of the material itself.
Some natural elements are beautifully constructed but fragile. It is challenging but interesting to work with things those are ephemeral. Either trying to sustain it or let it yield; to record it or let it leaves some traces. I saw this little translucent mushroom during a walk in the wood. After a light rain it disappeared.
In this video Andy Goldsworthy expressed how he experienced working in the landscape and in the studio; how he sees the essence of natural elements in their landscape and to maintain their integrity during working process reflecting on the outcome. The piece he demonstrated is Source of Scaur.
He said, “ The paintings do not represent it; they are it. The snow is the place. The pigment is the place. The way they melt is how snow melts. The way the wall of the paper reacts to the amount is how landscape reacts to the water.”
On the last day, TREMBLING, was installed on the grass outside Sidney Nolan Gallery.
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