Rose Rigley
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 Black Tree Calligraphy #1 - Flying Arts Alliance, QRAA Decadence Touring Exhibition 2021

When considering the theme DECADENCE, I couldn’t navigate past the idea of self-indulgence and for me, (like many), that involves the luxury of time. Time allows an artwork to evolve, with no specific purpose other than the sheer joy of conceptualizing, discovering, and finally creating. Such a creation is enabled with methods that are often repetitive and occasionally tedious but permits the artist the luxury of pondering thoughts and long-drawn-out pauses.
In Black Tree Calligraphy #1, the blackened husks of the tree bodies become memory’s text, creating their own language above the printed, drawn and stitched surrounds. By placing the tree ‘words’ over this landscape, I could consider the space in between. It is this place – where shadows form, where silent pauses rest and where memories linger – that I am seeking to understand. In today’s busy-ness, what an extravagance to be able to do so!

Images: Michael Marzik 
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I respectfully acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of Country on which I work, create, learn, and live. I recognise their continuing connection to land, waters, culture and community. I pay my respects to Elders past, present. and emerging.
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