Perpetual Excellence (2020). Paper. 2800x200mm.
Exhibited for USE YOUR WORDS, Schoolhouse Gallery, Melbourne March 2020.
Exhibited for USE YOUR WORDS, Schoolhouse Gallery, Melbourne March 2020.
‘Perpetual Excellence’ was inspired by an(other) idiotic thing Scott Morrison said in his first year term as Prime Minister of Australia.
To paraphrase, he stated he wouldn’t initiate strong climate policy for our country until he was assured (by some omnipresent being, perhaps?) that it would not impact a single job, property price or anyone in ANY regional area. I mean, where does one start with that. The notion that our head of state believes those things as a minimum would not be affected by inaction on climate change makes me want to bang my head against a wall (or funnel my fury into very controlled art-making).
As for the pop-up element, that was inspired by a library book my kids borrowed recently (and then I went into a Pinterest deep dive on paper pop-up technology. Whoa.) Ironically, Perpetual Excellence is the only work I have made for exhibit that actually requires the viewing public to touch and interact with it. Yes, the main thing we're not supposed to be doing right now, because Coronavirus. Ahhhh well. Sometimes, the things you want just aren't possible, eh Scotty?
As for the pop-up element, that was inspired by a library book my kids borrowed recently (and then I went into a Pinterest deep dive on paper pop-up technology. Whoa.) Ironically, Perpetual Excellence is the only work I have made for exhibit that actually requires the viewing public to touch and interact with it. Yes, the main thing we're not supposed to be doing right now, because Coronavirus. Ahhhh well. Sometimes, the things you want just aren't possible, eh Scotty?
