University of Western Sydney Sculpture Awards 2012

 

In the Bag: are we sitting comfortably? 
Materials: timber chairs, plastic, grass seed, hessian fabric, soil      

This installation was constructed to appear as if floating on the surface of this freshwater lake. The grass seats grew over a number of months produced condensation on the inside surface of the plastic.
“The more we have the less we own” Meister Eckhart, my work is informed by issues relating to human ecology, cultural displacement, consumption & materialism……

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