2010 A Natural Comparison

A Natural Comparison is a series of drawings juxtaposing anatomical images with found objects from the natural environment, an exploration which began in March 2009 while I was undertaking a residency at Murrays Cottage in Hill End, NSW (funded by the Bathurst Regional Art Gallery).

One morning I stepped outside the cottage to come across a ‘spine’ in my front garden, a delicate stem of slightly withered leaves that almost exactly emulated the shape of the human vertebrae. I ruminated on this, wondered what nature was trying to ‘tell’ me...

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