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'Shores of my own'

Eve Erickson

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Fuelled by my interest in testing materials, I work with a range of mediums and processes. Informed most by my figurative and illustrative interests, interpreting the body captures my attention most.

In our increasingly pressing crisis of environment, it is necessary to establish a relationship to environment. Through my envisioning of this watery body I hope to achieve a presentation of androgyny that is accessible and interconnective

Fuelled by my interest in testing materials, I work with a range of mediums and processes. Inform...

Water is deeply representative of my relationship to androgyny. The watery body is one that is unfixed, with undefined borders, ever-changing and adaptable.

Informed by my research into ‘hydro-feminist’ re-envisionings of the body I use figurations and materiality to stage an encounter with viewers, banding painting, illustration and sculpture. Bodying forth the possibility of an alternate way of being.

This work investigates a theme of water and interconnectivity in relation to the body. Exploring a symbiosis of nature with the individual.

Final work

Figure swimming through floor, only partial view of the head and right arm are visible as it crawls forward. Painted gradient blue to yellow-top down.

Shores of my own

As the edges of the figure delve into watery depths, it is up to speculation where the body ends and begins. sublimating with environment, the swimmer slinks through its environment perhaps drawing deeper and deeper into its illusive depths.

The sculpture contains an ocean scent, from a seaweed perfume of my own making, to further immerse viewers in its watery world. Could the whole room be an ocean? Could your body's peripheries be just as malleable as a shoreline.

close up photo showing the range of colour used to paint sculpture. Hues ranging from dark blue and purple to orange and yellow like a sunset.

Close up of sculpture

Fine line illustrated fish cut out of tracing paper

Details of fish installed alongside sculpture

In process photo of work before the addition of painting and showing the wire frame from which it is constructed.

Sculpture before paint

Research and process

swimmer sculpture in situ

Maquette version of installation

pressed seaweed example

Pressed seaweed

To create the olfactory element of this work I worked a great deal with seaweed, extracting a smell from it and pressing it to display alongside the sculpture. Seaweed's instrumental role in generating ecosystems and protection of shorelines afforded itself as fascinating natural material with which to tie my work more readily to the ocean.

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'Shores of my own'

Water is deeply representative of my relationship to androgyny. The watery body is one that is unfixed, with undefined borders, ever-changing and adaptable. Informed by my research into ‘hydro-feminist’ re-envisionings...

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