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Wind Farm

Wind Farm

I work as a farm hand on windswept hills and around the ponds and with the animals, most notably the horses. I engage in cultural co-creation with them, negotiating centuries long practice of farming and agricultural stewardship.

In much of my artwork the life drawing calls up the female body and its usual locus in domestic interiors. In this work the life drawing generates the physical topography of the farm, mother earth. Images appear through intuitive leaps: the farm's hills, the wind disturbing the pond, the many animals. In the monumental scale of the drawing the physicality of farm labour is repeated. The kinetic energy of the mark and the kinetic energy of the wind are one.

2013