A Sunken Garden is a show about wandering, foraging and perceiving. It’s a show about a garden as a place where knowledge is sown, materialised and maintained.
For Lyndon Blue, hand-weeding proposes itself as a healthy obsession, a meditative ecological act, a confusing metaphor and a way of artmaking through removal. The allure of foraged copper leads to a foray into the strange art of dowsing and unexpected ancestral discoveries.
For Tiyan Baker, bringing together plant life, language and storytelling is a way to invoke the power and possibility of traditional Bidayǔh knowledge.
For Lyndon Blue, hand-weeding proposes itself as a healthy obsession, a meditative ecological act, a confusing metaphor and a way of artmaking through removal. The allure of foraged copper leads to a foray into the strange art of dowsing and unexpected ancestral discoveries.
For Tiyan Baker, bringing together plant life, language and storytelling is a way to invoke the power and possibility of traditional Bidayǔh knowledge.
Photos: GL
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We acknowledge the Whadjuk people as the traditional and rightful owners of this land and pay respect to their people, and Elders past, present, future.
We acknowledge the Whadjuk people as the traditional and rightful owners of this land and pay respect to their people, and Elders past, present, future.
