2005

 

Karryne Smith

Caulfield South, VIC

Familiar Fields

Feral Sites

Familiar Fields

Blown vessel, graal

58 H x 15 W x 15 D cm

Feral Sites

Blown vessel, graal

47 H x 12 W x 12 D cm

Tinder dry explains the
transparency of space.

With hope and fluidity,
Boundaries erected,
Despair erodes,
threatens to ignite the surface.

Texture provides the known and lived.
Structures give way to organic environments,
For the future.

Scratchings...like a warren.
There is a familiarity living.
The tracks engrave only to scar.

Like the furrows of worn plows.
Grasping for a place they have
never owned.
The hunting continues.

The tenants accept the past
in order to thrive.
Celebrations held; talk of
achievements.

Indigenous environments starve.