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This collection of bags is made from the wire (muselet) that holds the cork in a champagne bottle. Once liberated from a bottle the muselet often changes shape either trampled under foot or flattened by a car. This transformed shape becomes the frozen motif of a celebration that has passed. No form is the same. Each shape is unique just like a recollection or a memory. Each individual form becomes a hieroglyphic representing an event.
These individual hieroglyphics have then been fused together to make a collection of bags. The bags are full of ambivalences and tensions about celebration and consumption. This is reflected in the art objects themselves: the plastic bag is both useful and wasteful, the dilly bag is a reminder of indigenous occupation and dispossession and the shopping bag is a symbol for retail therapy. |
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