Every human being stands beneath his own dome of heaven (homage to Kiefer), Museum vitrine installation
Altarations, Water tabernacle
The true deity is nature, notably the natural phenomena of water. The water tank is, like a beacon, a timeless altar with which to celebrate and measure our successes and failures in our fragile environment.
Alice in Wonderland
‘Dear, Dear. How queer everything is today’.
This often repeated exclamation by Alice, deals with the changing and warping of perception, the shifting of reality that she experiences in her wonderland. This is the subject of this work, Alice’s expansions and her changes in size, create an hallucinatory separation from her known world. The sequence of events seem to have a claustrophobic effect. In this work l have been very conscious of this enclosing, restricted space. Carroll states,looking down at her feet, they seem to be out of sight’. These paintings have that same sense of vertiginous feeling.Not so much a world upside down, but bending back devoid of conventional perspective.
As an artist l have been living in a semi-arid environment, bounded by salt damaged naturally occurring lakes. Alice’s near drowning in the pool of tears… has metaphoric connection to the destruction of our own natural environment. The lake is itself a pool of tears created like Alice’s pool through frustration, lack of knowledge and foolhardy inquisitiveness.
Just like Alice, we all search for paradise…in these works, the garden is symbolised by the rejuvenating, decomposing algae (slime) on the lake bed.
Drought
Triticum Spelta
Leaves
Well stocked fridge
Assorted works on paper
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This post was written by Alex Fettling