Contain Earrings 01
The Contain series was made for the exhibiiton With Other Eyes curated by Beate Gegenwart which toured Wales in 2018. They were my pieces made in Seattle before I moved back to Australia in October 2018.
I typically use photography after ideation in my practice – through research I tease out my message, then I source images that represent my thinking. For this project I reversed this process, and started with photographs. Shipping containers have surrounded and fascinated me since I moved to the US port city of Seattle over six years ago. I cut my forms from the corrugated steel of a salvaged container, into scaled-down versions of the standard 20’ and 40’ units. I did not want to build containers, only echo their enigmatic presence, thus these works present a façade, my postcard of Seattle.
Year2018 Mediumshipping container steel, stainless steel, vitreous enamel Dimensions13 x 31 x 15mm & 10 x 14 x 11mm EditionSmall and large piece per pair SeriesContain Series
