| DIMENSIONS |
(Height - 40.00 cm X Width - 37.00 cm ) |
| MEDIUM ON BASE |
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| GENRE |
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| REGISTERED NRN # |
000-44091-0139-01 |
| COPYRIGHT |
© Jasmin Taylor |
| PRIZES AND AWARDS |
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ARTIST NOTES: The ghosts of this place have lingered with me for a long time.
With this work, I sought to draw the viewer into a moment of extraordinary beauty in the Strzelecki Desert, and the sight of hundreds of finches flocking around the bores, clustering on rails and wires in unfathomable numbers.
But there was more to this place…the blistering heat, the pungent reek of fetid water and rotting bodies. For every living bird lingering by the empty tanks waiting for water that would never come, twenty more lay dead around my feet. This was no refuge.
I should not have been there.
I was 17, struggling with my mental health within a hostile family environment. I flew blindly at the first possibility of escape and, like the finches, I found no refuge either. I found my own tangle of barbed wire and isolation, enduring a decade of domestic abuse that I never imagined surviving,
Creating this piece has reminded me that I did.
