Cotton and linen fibre,  180 cm x 360 cm

 

I like flowers, they delight me.  In my family homes flowers were everywhere; on the walls, on mum’s frocks and on nana’s best china.  Flowers act as a metaphor for the familial conditioning of myself, a female child born in the 1950s.

 

That candy pink fibre is a bitch… is a translation of memories and feelings of home, through the use of domestic floral patterns reminiscent of my past.  The pulp painting is made with fibres sourced from donated or found recycled cotton and linen clothing, which carry the stories from their previous owners into my story of home.  Bringing the past into the present asks the question “what does home mean to me?” as a single, older, non-home owning woman in contemporary Australian culture and society.