Picnic Area
A series of mini still life assemblages created while attending the Mt Wilson Old School artist residency in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales. Each still life was constructed from mass produced objects and organic matter found at picnic areas in parks and forests: small items left behind on the ground by tourists and campers and the tiny flowers of native flora growing naturally in the area. Composed together, the objects represent the tension between the desire to experience natural beauty and the act of desecration. The still life assemblages were photographed with a commercial gaze, like a product in a catalogue, and displayed on large-scale glossy panels to suggest that the objects, now reconceptualised, are offered for further consumption. Like a product, the experience of the natural world was consumed, and the waste discarded.
A series of mini still life assemblages created while attending the Mt Wilson Old School artist residency in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales. Each still life was constructed from mass produced objects and organic matter found at picnic areas in parks and forests: small items left behind on the ground by tourists and campers and the tiny flowers of native flora growing naturally in the area. Composed together, the objects represent the tension between the desire to experience natural beauty and the act of desecration. The still life assemblages were photographed with a commercial gaze, like a product in a catalogue, and displayed on large-scale glossy panels to suggest that the objects, now reconceptualised, are offered for further consumption. Like a product, the experience of the natural world was consumed, and the waste discarded.