Babel
Craft Victoria, 31 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
30 April - 13 June 2009
Babel is a word-based collection of fine porcelain and paper works. Porcelain bones act as internal structures around which short texts scroll, words become obscured, permutating in a non-defined beginning or end; objects resembling futuristic Towers of Babel reaching into space.
These sculptural objects are placed onto large-scale text based charts, each one suggesting a process of decipherment. Map 1 displays similarities to ancient star charts, the placement of towers alluding to significant points of a constellation. Similarly, Chart 2 resembles an organised series of archeological artefacts, each piece methodically numbered and labelled.
Ultimately, Babel evokes a spiral passage both outward and inward. To unravel the scrolls initiates a return to the spine – the Axis Mundi. The source of a universal native tongue; love.
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