This series reminds me to differentiate the signal from the noise and to not take things personally, as nothing is about me.
Formally there is a contrast between highly-strung, carefully graded (both colour-wise and tonally) and an exhaling, letting-go, tumbling, unravelling, fine threads.
The falling threads are arrested by the pressure of the glass of the frame, perhaps the catching of the baby; the frame making the composition. Framing makes the art.
Does the framing of a situation, the contextualising, the attitude that holds the content, determine the signal, meaning or argument?
CHROMATIC ABERATIONS: 2022, 133.5 x 94.5 cm, sewing thread
ZINC & TITANIUM: 2022, 133.5 x 176 cm, sewing thread
FECUND I: 2022, 133.5 x 94.5 cm, sewing thread
FECUND II: 2022, 133.5 x 94.5 cm, sewing thread
INITIATION; MAIDEN: 2022, 129 x 91 cm, sewing thread
INITIATION; MOTHER: 2022, 129 x 91 cm, mixed media
INITIATION; CRONE: 2022, 129 x 91 cm, mixed media
OVERFLOWING EMPTINESS: 2022, 134.5 x 94.5 cm each, sewing thread
EMERALD POOL: 2022, 133.5 X 94.5 cm, sewing thread
BEGINNING THE BEGINNING: 2022, 125 cm x 91 cm, sewing thread
NEITHER BLUE NOR GREEN: 2022, 126 cm x 175 cm, sewing thread
KALI: 2022, 96 cm x 71 cm, sewing thread
DEEP DIVE / BOTTOMS HANDSFREE: 2020, 120 cm diameter, sewing thread
TOPS HANDSFREE: 2020, 120 cm diameter, sewing thread
SONG FOR ALPHA: 2020, 100 x 122 cm, sewing thread
[GOING] HOME [COMING]: 2020, 100 x 122 cm, sewing thread
OCEAN OF EMPTINESS: 2020, 75 x 98.5 cm, sewing thread
EVENT HORIZON: 2020, 88 x 115 cm, sewing thread
The material from which the sculptures [the noonoos] are made is often problematic matter. Material which is difficult to get rid of; that which cannot be composted, recycled or discarded due to personal attachment and meaning [e.g. love letters]. The matter is bound by thread and then bodies/compositions are developed by using the principle of balance.
Savasana Underpinning III - Owl: 2020, 38 cm x 23 cm. Non recyclable and non compostable matter, art production detritus, polyester sewing thread, small gold safety pins
Savasana Underpinning II - Moss: 2020, 27 cm x 23 cm. Non recyclable and non compostable matter, art production detritus, polyester sewing thread, small gold safety pins
The Artist and the Collector: 2019, roughly 34 cm Ø. Polyester sewing thread, found remote control face, non recyclable and non compostable matter, art production detritus
Euthanasia and Friends: 2018
Eye of the Needle (detail): 2018
Shamiela: 2017
Cia explaining the Noonoo installation FNB art fair, Johannesburg September 2018
Shamiela and the Forty Thieves, and Noonoo Index Catalogue Launch Installation Performance: 2018
Enough: 2017
Hiding and Friend: 2017
Good Fences Make Good Neighbours / BRICS (detail): 2016
Purple Noonoo: 2016
Yello Noonoo: 2013
Multi Noonoo: 2013
Even the Bride: 2013
Mommy What’s a Merkaba?: 2011
Blokkies: 2004
MAGENTAVERMILLIONFAWN: 2021, 32.5 x 39 cm, sewing thread
FLOWERMOON: 2021, 82 x 122 cm, sewing thread
MOONFLOWER: 2021, 122 x 82 cm, sewing thread
FORESTBLUE I: 2021, 122 x 82 cm, sewing thread
FORESTBLUE II: 2021, 122 x 82 cm, sewing thread
AFTERBURN I: 2021, 82 x 122 cm, sewing thread
AFTERBURN II: 2021, 122 x 82 cm, sewing thread
BLACKBLUE: 2021, 33 x 51 cm, sewing thread
TURQUOISEGREY: 2021, 32 x 46 cm, sewing thread
PINKGREEN: 2021, 38.5 x 28.5 cm, sewing thread
DEEPREDPRUSSIANBLUE: 2021, 43.5 x 43.5 cm, sewing thread
PINKCREAM: 2020, 21 x 30 cm, sewing thread
REDBLUE: 2020, 30 x 21 cm, sewing thread
BLUEMAUVE: 2020, 30 x 21 cm, sewing thread
My artistic practice is mostly steered by producing as minimal [carbon] footprint as possible. I often use found material that cannot be composted or recycled. This series uses compact discs as my canvas. Not only are these objects obsolete as a music format, the plastic cannot be recycled. I have used sewing thread as paint, to cover the discs, as part of an ongoing series called Cover Versions.
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