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airmaker [stromatolite]

alcove

Located 34.8320°N 67.8267°E, the two Buddhas of Bamiyan were c.570 CE and c.618 CE statues in the Bamiyan Valley of Afghanistan – the time when the Hephthalites ruled the region. On 2 March 2001, the Taliban began destruction of the statues that lasted several weeks. The alcove remains.

Located 22.6175°S 117.1577°E the 46,000+ year old Juukan Gorge rock shelters were permanently destroyed on 24 May 2020 as part of mine expansion of Brockman 4. In 2014, the site was classified as ‘cleared’ for mining and removed from relevant risk registers, with ministerial consent under Western Australian legislation. Prior to its destruction, the site had been excavated in 2014 with the remains/artefacts stored at Rio Tinto Dampier office, in north-west Western Australia. The value of iron ore accessed from the area following the blast was AUD $135 million [2021].

The notion of alcove, recess, staging and protection [harbour] is pondered where the overarching [philosophical] structure becomes the fount of a work. A work does not go in, it comes out of that structure.

The punchline for the alcove series artwork is about the origin and application of a philosophy and when an overarching philosophy can be absent. If it is true, that all art is philosophical, it may point to why arts practice is practical, valuable and therefore maintained – because it is an accessible place where philosophy can be investigated and formed. In the references above, one is religious [based on revelation and faith] and the other is an economic system. Both are ideologies, where a philosophy is absent. The development of a philosophy, fit for use over a life time, may be why an arts practice is counter culture.

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artworks cabinet

retasked/adapted/adopted furniture 2020