Here but There 2020
From the Series ‘Continued Oscillations’
These artist book pages have been re-contextualised for large scale wall prints.
The creation of this work pendulated between Australia and Argentina and back to Australia.
The blank book pages were eco printed using local eucalyptus bush elements from St Andrews, Victoria. They then made the journey to Argentina where they were overprinted using photolithography with images from the La Puna region of North West Argentina. This part of the project was carried out during a residency at “Proyecto ‘ACE” in Buenos Aires.
The unbound book journeyed back to Australia and continued to evolve with additional contextual layering.
The crafting and physical milage journey of these book pages is integral to the conceptual idea. As a migrant artist living in Australia (born Argentina), the landscape, vegetation, and environmental elements become a metaphor for the duality of belonging in two countries.
More relevant than ever because of travel restrictions due to Covid 19, these pages now represent a memento, a memory and a longing to return.
I am Here but also There
Photographic prints - Pigmented Inkjet on Cotton rag paper
Open Edition - numbered sequentially.
Available Unframed in A2 or A1 size.
