It is the beginning of July and I have just completed the twenty drawings for the Mother Tongue project. Each of the twenty drawings represent a region of Italy and for the very first time I wrote on the front of my drawings. A very nerve wracking experience. Here is a little journey from the beginning to almost the end – sound, video components as well as photography and installation are yet to come.
Mother Tongue will be exhibited in Mildura at the ADFA (old Australian Dried Fruits Association) building in Deakin Avenue. This is perfect as the Willam Morris background hidden in the background is of grape vines!! The exhibition will be part of Mildura Palimpsest #9 which runs from 4 – 7 October, 2013.
New pastels and me trying to work out how to draw pink fur. It is the very beginnings with lots of hesitation and wondering if it will work!!
This is the very first drawing that I completed. I chose the smallest and most familiar. I had actually drawn this image before as part of my exhibition Wallflower – The Event. It was all brown and furry and titled Wallflower – A lick and a slurp. Here it is now in all its fleshy pink lushness!
Detail of the drawings up close and personal. The drawings getting bigger and more diverse.
Placing a selection together to try and get an idea of what twenty will look like on the wall. The twenty drawings will be contained in a space that is 345h x 615w cm.
The twenty drawings all complete and for the first time every I wrote on top of the pastel. Each drawing was titled with the region it refers to. Meet Toscana!!