Laomedia

Birds have featured throughout the shroud project creating ghostly images.
The exhibition is at Maitland Regional Gallery

'Blessing' magpie, rabbit skin glue, ochre, charcoal, aquarelle and cotton stitching on canvas

Sewing or adding ochres changes the representation.
This is a delicate negotiation, adding one element may detract from the indexical power of the bodily stain.

Laden with materia prima in the form of sacred ochres from Around Australia and a funerary cloth holding the bodily pigments of a chough and starling, I bring them into dialogue through painting process.