"Refuge Nests (China - Turkey - Australia)", knitted found materials, June - July 2011.
These three nests were exhibited in F__k your Donation August 2011 at First Site Gallery RMIT Melbourne Australia. They were made between the 14th of June and 20th of July (thirty six days). I made them in three homes: my apartment in Ningbo China, Kariklevi Hotel during the 8th International Artist Workshop at Cappadocia Turkey, and at my family home in Bellbird, NSW, Australia. The actual construction process for each was spread over a few intense days in each country, but the gathering of the materials extended over the whole period of travel.
Each nest was made in the intimate spaces of my bed, lounge or hotel room, and express my internal sense of home. Gaston Bachelard stated in his book The Poetics of Space, that the form of the nest offers us a space of refuge in which we can daydream. My nests are my refuge, a temporary space and symbol to feel at home in a foreign place. It represents every human's basic need to belong, to feel at home no matter where we are.
These three nests were exhibited in F__k your Donation August 2011 at First Site Gallery RMIT Melbourne Australia. They were made between the 14th of June and 20th of July (thirty six days). I made them in three homes: my apartment in Ningbo China, Kariklevi Hotel during the 8th International Artist Workshop at Cappadocia Turkey, and at my family home in Bellbird, NSW, Australia. The actual construction process for each was spread over a few intense days in each country, but the gathering of the materials extended over the whole period of travel.
Each nest was made in the intimate spaces of my bed, lounge or hotel room, and express my internal sense of home. Gaston Bachelard stated in his book The Poetics of Space, that the form of the nest offers us a space of refuge in which we can daydream. My nests are my refuge, a temporary space and symbol to feel at home in a foreign place. It represents every human's basic need to belong, to feel at home no matter where we are.
