small artworks 2024

The brush stroke is from a local stone, Kookie as it is referred to by first nation’s community. Crushing, grinding and mulling the gypsum into a fine powder, mixing with a gum arabic, rain water and an egg yolk, and then brushed onto paper.

I created these sweeping dimensional forms with a gold tip needle I purchased decades ago in Yangon, Myanmar or Burma. I attached it to a branch from a Jacaranda tree this the artist planted more than 20 years ago in Sydney. Tiny holes progressively swirl into the paper, and the design literally opens up.

The holes are not at precisely at right angles to the paper, rather they are slightly on an angle. Standing to the right of the painting one can see the holes appearing dark, While as one moves to the left of the painting the holes disappear. All that one sees is the highlight of the light hitting the perforations.

Signed with the total count of pin points in every work.