Annexing a space within the Tasman Sea scene is a swathe of patterned textiles, draped and pinched into peaks that hang uncannily within the landscape. The fabrics have the modest, domestic origins of checked tablecloths, yet with their exaggerated patterns and strange billowing forms, they appear more ambiguous, wavering between unassuming decoration and smothering intrusion.
Rather than transplanting the familiar comforts of home into the wilderness, this painting draws out the complex and shifting relationships between humans and the landscape, inside and outside, stillness and movement, comfort and risk. The textiles ensnare both the landscape and the viewer.
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